The United Nations has announced a new biosphere reserve in Brazil's Pantanal region, the largest tropical wetland ecosystem in the world. The country's biologists are hoping that Pantanal's new

Numerous wild buffaloes will be killed in the Rondonia state of western Brazil. They are overtaking the area's native species, say

An oil spill of about 100 litres of crude oil has been reported from one of the refineries of Petrobras, Brazil's oil giant. The spill is spread over an area of 2 square kilometres, off the coast

The benefit of transferring technologies under the Kyoto Protocol s mechanisms is questionable

A pest which ruins a third of Brazil's oranges each year could soon be eliminated, thanks to the genome sequencing. According to Andrew Simpson of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Sao

The leakage of four million litres of crude oil from a refinery operated

Water is being rationed in Sao Paulo

Government inspectors in Brazil are burning fields and seizing sacks of bio-engineered soybean seeds. Brazil is yet to approve the cultivation of these beans and has thus emerged as the world's

Environmentalists in Brazil won a major victory when a legislative proposal to open more areas to logging and harvesting was put on hold till March. If the Congress approved the bill, it would have