The Charles Paddock Zoo in Atascadero received a bonded pair of hyacinth macaws for its new Cerrado Aviaries Exhibit opening on Jan. 18, 2025. The bright blue parrots, which are the largest species of ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

City of Atascadero Both species hail from the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot, a grassland biome which covers a total area of 2 million square kilometers just below the Amazon rainforest, making it ...

The Pantanal biome dried up the most in 2023, recording a 61% decrease compared to the 1985 historical average. The Amazon rainforest experienced a historic drought from June to November 2023 ...

“The first observation was that one section of the Amazon is quite different from another. Most scientists adopt a rate and apply it to the entire biome ... the rainforest’s carbon balance ...

For millennia, humans have used insects, plants and other organisms in the Amazon region for a variety ... very wet hydrological cycle that kept the rainforest thriving for millennia is under threat, ...

The boreal forest has more sources of freshwater than any other biome, including the Amazon Rainforest ... Giant processing plants, along with gargantuan extraction machines, including bucket ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. Leticia Yawanawa has an ambitious plan ...

Peru’s boiling river reaches 210°F, killing animals instantly. Scientists found biodiversity drops by 11% for every 1.8°F ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.