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SAO PAULO(AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual numbers are released in October, the deforestation rate is expected to be the lowest since 2012. Despite gains in keeping forest standing, however, many other threats, ranging from climate change to potential legislation on the horizon, are putting the forest at risk. Forest [...]

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply slowed deforestation in the Amazon, and indeed it has. When the next official annual numbers are released in October, the deforestation rate is expected to be the lowest since 2012. Despite gains in keeping forest standing, however, many other threats, ranging from climate change to potential legislation on the horizon, are putting the forest at risk. Forest [...]

There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil. ...... read full story

Brazil's ANVISA approved the Butantan-DV single-dose dengue vaccine, developed by Butantan Institute, showing 91.6 percent efficacy amid record global dengue cases in 2024. ...... read full story

Metabolic diseases are on the rise, more than ever, and what if tea could be the key to tackling them? Yes, tea could be the answer to all your metabolic problems, including weight management! A recent study led by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) found that a specific tea could be a potential treatment for reducing... read full story "We give them chocolate, filled cookies, dulce de leche, condensed milk... In other words, the same type of food that many [...]

The initial goal was to identify treatments for the three most common diseases among the Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe people of the Caramuru/Paraguassu indigenous land in southern Bahia: parasitic infections, diabetes, and hypertension. This is how the research of ethnobotanist Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó Hãhãhãe began. As... read full story "Much of the forest cover has now been lost and turned into pasture. As a result, [...]

Watan -Preliminary findings presented at a health conference in France, organized by the São Paulo Research Foundation, suggest that venom from the Amazon rainforest scorpion (Brotheas amazonicus) may hold potential in treating breast cancer. In the relentless global search for new cancer treatments, researchers are exploring unexpected sources—including scorpion tails, according to Science Alert. To accelerate the process, a team of Brazilian researchers injected specific [...]

Giant sloths used to roam all over North America. Over 10 times bigger than today's sloths, many lived on the ground instead of in the trees and their closest living relatives are actually armadillos and anteaters. The largest of these ancient animals were those in the genus Megatherium–roughly the size of a modern Asian bull

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big. ...... read full story