vegetation

Brasilia, Nov 1 (IANS) A 50 km-long wildfire is advancing across Brazil's Pantanal wetlands.The governor's office in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul said the fire was "bigger than anything seen before" in the region, the BBC reported on…

Brasilia, Sep 9 (IANS) The Brazilian Amazon lost 1,698 sq.km of its vegetation cover in August, an area 222 per cent higher than the deforestation recorded in the same month last year, according to official data.Although the total…