Acai, also known as “açaí,” is popular in the United States for its berries and juice. It comes from an Amazonian palm tree, Euterpe oleracea. Acai is grown in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela. It needs ...

Spread the loveOn March 20, 2026, Brazil is bracing for a significant weather event as forecasts predict intense rain and storms across the Southeast and North regions of the country. This impending ...

Brazil has released a new national climate plan, the first update to the plan since it was first laid out in 2008. The new plan is seen as much more comprehensive and detailed than the previous one.

Brazil's Flavio Bolsonaro, who plans to run for president in October elections, on Thursday called for "many, many prisons" in a speech praising the controversial security policies of El Salvador's ...

Researchers have discovered the purpose of the bizarre clay chimneys located at the base of the Amazon rainforest based on ...

Peer-reviewed research on Brazil’s Cerrado biome is sharpening the picture of where some of the region’s most carbon-dense soils are found. A study published in the Journal of South American Earth ...

Long seen as the poor relation to arabica, small growers in the Amazon are rebooting robusta’s bitter reputation, which can thrive in higher temperatures ...

A hotter world is quietly changing one of the simplest things we do for our health - moving our bodies. For many people, a walk in the park, a jog ...

Stretching from northeastern Brazil, down along the Atlantic coastline, he Atlantic Forest is a vital global biodiversity hot spot.

In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, the country’s agricultural heartland, vast stretches of lush Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna give way to seemingly endless fields of soy. Located in a transition ...

Buried beneath the hills of southern Brazil and northern Argentina, scientists have discovered massive tunnels that were ...

A ballet about the life of legendary Soviet-born dancer Rudolf Nureyev that was banned in Russia for containing "gay ...