An adventure aboard a floating lodge in early January immersed in the nature and culture of the Amazon River set the bar pretty high for University of Delaware students studying abroad that month in ...

Bats play a crucial role in tropical regions as pollinators, seed dispersers and agricultural pest controllers. But they are exposed to a wide range of threats, pollution among them. Two recent papers ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil's vast and diverse geography, with the Amazon to the north, mountain ranges along the Atlantic coast and the Andes to its west, may have helped it avoid the U.S. fate of ...

Our research on Caiçara ethnoecology in the Juatinga Ecological Reserve, in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, focuses on basket, canoe, and paddle making to understand Caiçara knowledge and ...