As the impacts of climate change increasingly affect the daily lives of residents in several countries, including Brazil, the ...

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Caetê, which means "virgin forest" in the Tupi-Guarani language, is an algorithm capable of projecting the future of Amazonian vegetation by presenting scenarios of forest transformation.

Ernesto Londoño’s memoir 'Trippy' explores psychiatry's renewed flirtation with drugs such as LSD. He's a believer but not a ...

Brazil records an average of 29,000 snakebites a year , leading to around 130 deaths. And it is in the Amazon that the ...

This World Press Freedom Day, slain journalists like Simon Cumbers and Dom Phillips remind us why freedom of the press is ...

The extractive industries are strategic components of the economy of all Amazonian countries, but their importance varies ...

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Amazonia is the home of the largest variety of birds in the world. In such a unique environment, craft cultures have flourished by translating the beauty and creativity of environmental materials like ...

Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity ...