The wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands, the world's largest tropical wetland, have raged the region since August, threatening ...

Brazil's wetlands region called the Pantanal covers an area roughly the size of England. Although this region is typically ...

Brazil There have been more than 15,000 fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands so far this year, causing widespread devastation. That is triple the number recorded in the same period in 2019 ...

Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...

The Pantanal has also lost about 80% of its surface water since 1985, more than any other Brazilian biome. The growth of industrial soya bean farming has driven demand for a waterway, to transport ...

At a shelter for big cats in Brazil, a vet gingerly dresses wounds on a jaguar that was caught in wildfires raging in the ...

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said Tuesday that at least 96% of the fires in the Pantanal, Pantanal, a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area and the ...

A key compound of the deadly defoliant “Agent Orange,” used in the Vietnam War, was sprayed from planes to deliberately kill ...

Scientists visited an area of the Pantanal within 48 hours of a fire Amid the bleakness of 2020, scientists in Brazil concluded a particularly grim conservation study - attempting to count the ...

At a shelter for big cats in Brazil, a vet gingerly dresses wounds ... While the animal is expected to heal, her home in the Pantanal continues to burn. Get any of our free email newsletters ...

The Pantanal, south of the Amazon in Mato Grosso do Sul state, has the world's highest density of jaguars. It is also home to millions of caimans, parrots and giant otters. Brazil has been ...