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Adorable rescued armadillo wants to bond with her caretaker Dauer: 00:53 This adorable armadillo was rescued from illegal trafficking and now lives at a Wildlife Refuge. She doesn't interact much with people, but she is very curious and wanted to smell all the other animals the caretaker had been working with! The illegal wildlife trade is the third most valuable illicit commerce in the world, losing only to drugs and weapons. That, along with loss of habitat by deforestation, fires, etc., results in an enormous amount of animals in need of rescuing. Only 1 in 10 animals survive trafficking...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Stone tools are used for digging, seed pounding, and stone-on-stone percussion. The monkeys can serve as a model to help understand how humans evolved to use tools view more  Credit: Tiago Falótico/EACH-USP A group of researchers including Tiago Falótico, a Brazilian primatologist at the University of São Paulo's School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH-USP), archeologists at Spain's Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES) and University College London in the UK, and an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An...

Brazil already has the largest fleet of cars driven by ethanol, mainly from sugarcane; now corn-based ethanol plants are on the rise. The ethanol produced by sugarcane and corn has have the potential to reduce up to 90% of the greenhouse gases. And, as mentioned in our recent blog, the country’s diesel fuel will soon have an additional one percent of biofuel (13% compared to current levels of 12%). This is mainly produced by soy oil. The carbon footprint these biofuels leave will be a business opportunity to exchange carbon credits with different industries. Many power plants produce sugar ...

1 1National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, São José dos Campos, Brazil 2Graduate Program in Natural Disasters, UNESP/CEMADEN, State University of São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil 3State of São Paulo Secretary of Infrastructure and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil 4CPTEC/INPE-Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Studies/National Institute for Space Research, São Paulo, Brazil 5Paula Souza State Technological Education Center, São Paulo, Brazil The Pantanal region in South America is one of the world's largest wetlands. Since 2019, the Pantanal ha...

Biocrusts Are an Entire World Beneath Our Feet New research in Brazil highlights how distinctive the “living skin” of the planet can be. Biocrusts Are an Entire World Beneath Our Feet Copy Link The slight crunch underfoot is a biocrust—critical to healthy ecosystems. Courtesy Náthali Machado de Lima In This Story A few decades ago, a team of scientists reported in Nature that life on land is possibly over a billion years older than previously demonstrated. Their evidence came in the form of a chunk of ancient soil, or paleosol, that contained what they believed were once “mats” of...