When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The vast Pantanal is home to thousands of animal and plant species, including jaguars, caimans ...

Moisture content, organic matter, and the color of soil varies across the United States, researchers reveal. In celebration of the International Year of Soil 2015 (IYS), the Soil Science Society of ...

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change. What happens to a rich and unique ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, with fires in June breaking historical records for that month. While aerial views of the wetland show smoke rising and the bright ...

What’s It Like? Kids can explore three different wetland habitats — freshwater marsh, saltwater marsh, and mangrove swamp. They have tasks in each habitat, or “biodome,” such as identifying consumers, ...

GM has just announced its support for a pioneering conservation project of the Pantanal biome in Brazil, considered the largest wetland in the world, as part of its policy of social responsibility and ...

Despite their importance to water security and their legal protection, diffuse seeps—which are primarily responsible for the formation of wetlands in Brazil's Cerrado savanna biome—continue to be ...

A coalition of more than 40 scientists is warning that a proposal to create a new artificial shipping channel through South America's Pantanal wetlands could lead to the "end of an entire biome." The ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, with fires in June breaking historical records for that month. Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, ...