11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (367+ words) A new study in Ecuador's Amazon is challenging a common assumption in conservation: Forests do not always need strict, top-down protections to remain healthy. To assess forest condition, the team used satellite observations and three indicators: long-term vegetation-greenness trends, sudden…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (625+ words) A sweeping national survey of Brazilian municipalities has exposed a deep disconnect between the world’s most ambitious early warning initiative and the local governments expected to carry it out....

11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (704+ words) Brazil has a huge amount of high-quality official economic data. The problem is that using it programmatically is much harder than it should be. The Brazilian Central Bank has one API and data model. IBGE has another. Tesouro has another....

14+ hour, 19+ min ago   (666+ words) One email, every weekday morning. What moved in Latin American markets, politics and expat life. Yesterday’s subject line: “'The false peace is over' - Colombia” Argentina is being told to expect the strongest El Niño in decades over its next harvest,…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (659+ words) Brazil sits at the heart of the global bioethanol economy, cultivating more than eight million hectares of sugarcane to supply renewable fuel for domestic consumption and export markets. As worldwide demand for low-carbon energy intensifies, researchers face a pressing question:…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (68+ words) Zinc is one of those nutrients that plants cannot live without, yet too much of it can quietly poison them. In agricultural regions where soils are contaminated by industrial activity, mining, or over-application of fertilizers, the line between essential micronutrient…...

13+ hour, 54+ min ago   (524+ words) Deep in the soils of Brazil’s coffee heartland, a quiet revolution is brewing....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (577+ words) One email, every weekday morning. African markets, politics and business — filed from our newsroom in Rio. Yesterday’s subject line: “Kenya: Greek firm proposes US$1.5bn AI data centre” Angola has joined the Space4Ocean Alliance, a global push to use satellite data for…...

23+ hour, 29+ min ago   (30+ words) The rise of AI-generated deepfakes and cloned voices of public figures in financial advertisements has made online scam detection …...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (71+ words) Gotu kola, the humble creeping herb known scientifically as Centella asiatica, has quietly become one of the most sought-after plants on the planet. Its leaves contain a family of triterpenoid saponins called centellosides—including asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic…...