Over 30 Million Brazilian Children Are Exposed To Climate Risks
A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warns that children and adolescents may suffer disproportionately from the…
Brazilian-led Team Finds New Feline Species In Bolivian Forests
A new species of feline, named Leopardus tilcayo, has been identified in the mountain forests of Bolivia, in a region…
Amazon Home To Over 2,700 Species Of Fish, Study Finds
The Amazon basin is home to more than 2,700 species of freshwater fish – about 15 percent of all known…
A Fossil Feather From The Age Of Dinosaurs May Explain Why Only Some Birds Survived
Paleontology can be quite physical. In 2016, David DeMar was doing field work in the rocky badlands of Montana in…
A Week After The Deadly Floods In Nepal, Rescuers Work To Find Survivors
A week after powerful flash floods devastated riverside communities in Tibet and Nepal and killed more than 1,000 people, rescuers…
Floods Kill More Than 500 People In Nepal And Tibet, With 90 Americans Among The Missing
Two days after waves nearly 30-feet high gushed down a river between Tibet and Nepal, wiping away communities for miles…
Exploring The Green Side Of Rio De Janeiro: A Vast Urban Rain Forest
My trek into Tijuca National Park started on a crowded tram that carries tourists up Corcovado Mountain, rising more than…
A Solar Eclipse Happens This Week. Here Is What To Know
People in Iceland, Greenland, northern Russia, Spain, and a part of Portugal will see a total eclipse, according to astronomers.…
A 7.1 Quake Hits Japan’s Kyushu, Trapping People In A Collapsed Shopping Mall
An earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.1 shook Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu and caused part of a shopping…
Pythons’ Extreme Biology May Hold Clues For Treating Human Disease
When Skip Maas first adopted Agrapina, a mottled ball python, she hadn’t eaten in 14 months. But as he soon…
Biocosmetics Combine Science And Riverine Traditions In Amazon
From a height of 30 to 50 meters, the andiroba tree drops ripe fruits to the ground. The impact splits…
Study Reveals 113-Million-Year-Old Pterosaur Tissue Preservation
A new fossilization mechanism capable of preserving soft tissues and even steroids – extremely fragile organic molecules – in a…
Untold Casualties And Humanitarian Needs: What To Know A Week From Venezuela’s Quakes
It’s been a week since Venezuela’s worst earthquake disaster in over a century. Thousands of people are feared dead, with…
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Brazil Develops Its Own Technology For Lab-grown Meat Production
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has begun producing lab-grown meat. The experiment does not involve the slaughter of animals…
Lula Offers Aid To Venezuela And Expresses Dismay Over Earthquake
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he had learned “with great concern and dismay” of the impact caused…
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El Niño Is Here, So What Does It Mean?
This summer was already predicted to be hot for much of the planet, after a near-record year of global heat…
5 Ways To Reduce Everyday Exposure To ‘Forever Chemicals’
“Forever chemicals” are everywhere — in our drinking water, in our food and in products like nonstick frying pans, raincoats…
Brazil Unveils National Plan For Bioeconomy
The Brazilian government on Wednesday (Apr. 1) presented a new strategy to make biodiversity one of the country’s main economic…
Earth’s Inner Core May Have Stopped And Started Rotating In Reverse, Study Suggests
A study conducted by researchers at Peking University has reignited the scientific debate about the behavior of the Earth’s inner…
Peer Pressure Can Make This Clownfish Change Its tripes
In the Disney film Finding Nemo, the clownfish Marlin worries that his son Nemo may have suffered an injury, and…