Brazil held the COP15 conference on migratory species this past week, managing to deliver on several international accords to protect migrating birds, fish and mammals.
In Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park, organizations have embarked on bold (and successful) animal reintroduction projects, seeking to bring back long-lost species.
Cutting methane emissions is deemed to be one of the fastest ways for the world to slow down global warming, but the challenge in Brazil is not straightforward.
Brazil’s growing solar and wind energy generation still suffers from intermittence and curtailment. There could be an environmentally friendly way to solve that problem.
From Asian mussels clogging up hydroelectric plants to the political firestorm over tilapia, Brazil’s handling of invasive species has moved from the lab to the halls of power.
While the weather in parts of the country is naturally harder to predict, aging and obsolete technology led to subpar forecasting in Brazil. Thanks to a new supercomputer, that may be about to change.
Microplastics appear to be everywhere these days, but a recent finding from Brazilian researchers found these tiny particles in a remote protected area of the Amazon forest.
Once an environmental liability, açaí waste is being turned into biomass fuel and construction material — cutting emissions in one of the world’s hardest-to-clean industries.
European opposition to the EU-Mercosur trade deal has been declared in environmental terms, but are the arguments valid? Or do they stray into protectionism?
