Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado, a vast tropical savanna region, has increased by nearly 45% compared to 2022 levels, with 3,000 square miles of vegetation being torn down.

But roughly half of the Cerrado’s native vegetation has been lost to agriculture in the last 50 years, and development of the savanna is closely linked to Brazil’s meteoric rise as a leading ...

The Amazon is still burning, but it's not the only environmental crisis Brazil is staring down at the moment. Just a few miles south of the rainforest is Brazil's Cerrado region, a massive, bio ...

The Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna, stretches 1.2 million square miles up the spine of Brazil, covering a fifth of the country.

Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado, the world's most species-rich savanna, rose 3% from August 2022 to July 2023 to 11,022 square kilometers (4,255.6 square miles), data from the country's space ...

Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas ...

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

Thousands of small communities in Brazil are not located on official maps, leaving them at a disadvantage against agricultural encroachment and the destruction of the Cerrado, experts say.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil and reported in an article published in Nature Communications shows that the Cerrado, Brazil’s savanna biome, is ...

Brazil’s Forest Code, for example, requires landowners in the Amazon to maintain up to 80% of their land for native vegetation compared with just 20-35% in the Cerrado.

The Cerrado savanna, covering an area larger than Mexico and crucial for regulating 40% of Brazil’s freshwater, is facing its worst drought in more than 700 years, according to a 2024 study.