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Risky crab feast
Life among the mangroves: barnacles and oysters clinging to red mangrove trunks… Shortly before eight in the morning, biologist Marcelo Pinheiro is standing in front of his laboratory and talking...
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Who are the deforesters?
Rural Amazon: large properties are cutting down more of the forest than smaller ones In the area known as the Legal Amazon, large properties are largely responsible for existing levels of...
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Noisy frogs, sleepless nights in São Paulo
Native to the Antilles, E. johnstonei has taken up residence in a São Paulo neighborhood One night in 2012, a woman living in the Brooklin neighborhood of São Paulo heard a strange noise, so she...
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Back to sea
Double strength: the Alpha Delphini (smaller vessel) alongside the Alpha-Crucis, anchored in the Port of Santos May 30, 2012 in the Port of Santos, on the coast of São Paulo State, marked the...
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Concepts of nature
IPBES defines concepts that will be used in reports on biodiversity, such as that found in the Amazon (below) Researchers involved in the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem...
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SBPC criticizes draft bill
The Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) has released a statement proposing changes to the draft bill on biodiversity and genetic resources that was approved by the Chamber of...
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Pleasurable descriptions
Sketch of the body of an insect (grasshopper) Among the travelers, priests and naturalists who wrote about Brazilian nature for a wide audience, it is hard to find anyone so prolific, all-embracing...
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Millions of plants online
Branch of a sweet potato plant collected in Anavilhanas, Amazonia, in 1991: preserved at the New York Botanical Garden During two trips planned for 2015, Sergio Romaniuc Neto of the Botanical...
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Underground strategies
Typical rupestrian grassland landscape in the Canastra Mountains When they went off to the Serra do Cabral Mountains in the state of Minas Gerais to examine the vegetation with a botanist’s eye,...
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Living in freedom
Back to the forest: agouti reintroduced into Tijuca Park, with a nature-born cub The agoutis have come back to Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro. The return of these rodents to one of Brazil’s...
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Fully-integrated invaders
In the eyes of a biologist, invasive species are the bad guys. As a general rule, changing a native habitat will reduce its biological diversity. Exotic plants and animals that successfully...
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The role of scientific advice
The role that scientists play in policymaking on matters such as climate change and biodiversity has so far been limited to providing technical data; it does not include monitoring the impact of the...
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A world of trees
Amazon Forest: The tropical Americas may not be the site of the greatest tree diversity Amidst the vastness of tropical forests, scientists remain clueless as to how many tree species actually...
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In the mud and sand of Araçá
The beach exposed: at low tide, the bay is transformed into a muddy bog. In the distance, the port of São Sebastião in São Sebastião, SP When the tide is low, Araçá Bay is transformed. The water...
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Tracing the footsteps of Saint-Hilaire
in Bananal The marks of time: at left, forests and mountains of Pindamonhangaba in 1827. Above, eucalyptus trees and an eroded hill on the outskirts of Bananal in 2015 “The region is becoming...
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Forests in transformation
In the Amazon, liana populations are gaining ground in areas of continuous forest without any history of disturbance Published in October 2014 American ecologist Robyn Burnham gets up a little...
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Turbulent gestations
Monkey Head (NGC 2174): image of the nebula taken by the Hubble telescope, containing young stars (bright spots), plasma clouds and molecular clouds (dark regions) (Click for more details) It is...
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Mutual benefit
Sweet work: Melipona seminigra transports a grain of pollen Humans have explored honeybee colonies since prehistoric times, but only in recent years have we learned that the importance of these...
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Inventory of the Cerrado
Tree in the Cerrado: surveying biological and social relevance A comprehensive survey of plant life in the Cerrado savannah—Brazil’s second-largest biome—will receive R$60 million from the Forest...
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A new chance for the Atlantic Forest
Tug of war: when human inhabitants leave, the native vegetation reclaims the land “That’s where my grandmother’s house was,” ecologist Camila Rezende heard someone say deep in the forest in the...
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