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Dawn in Serra do Mar, Brazil. Carla Nichiata/Shutterstock

July 28, 2021

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest will change more in the next 50 years than at any time since the last ice age

Oliver Wilson, University of Reading

For one of Earth’s most biodiverse forests, 21,000 years of natural change pale in comparison to modern, man-made climate breakdown.

June 23, 2021

A lone tree makes it easier for birds and bees to navigate farmland, like a stepping stone between habitats

Carla Archibald, Deakin University; Eduardo van den Berg, Federal University of Lavras, and Jonathan Rhodes, The University of Queensland

Enabling wildlife to journey across farmlands not only benefits conservation, but also people. It means bees can improve crop pollination, and seed-dispersing birds can help restore ecosystems.

More than 300,000 hectares of subtropical forest in Paraguay have burned since July due to illegal land clearing for agriculture, according to the National Security Ministry, Oct. 1, 2019. AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

October 24, 2019

In Paraguay, rural communities facing deforestation see power – and profit – in a beloved drink

Peter Friederici, Northern Arizona University

Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this 'superfood' save Paraguay's tropical forests, too?

An Araucaria juts out of Brazil’s misty Atlantic Forest. Douglas Scortegagna/Wikimedia Commons

September 10, 2019

Climate breakdown is pushing Brazil’s iconic Araucaria tree to extinction – new research

Oliver Wilson, University of Reading

Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.

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