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More than 12,000 wild animals were killed on the roads in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state between 2017 and 2020, including threatened species such as tapirs and giant anteaters. The real death toll ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Mato Grosso do Sul is among Brazil’s most strategic states for transnational crime. All manner of smuggling takes place in the seven cities scattered along the state’s extensive border with Paraguay .
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, deforesters foot the bill for political campaigns
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Brazil’s 2018 elections, 422 candidates running in executive and legislative races at state and federal levels across the country received ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Land quality and deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
The state of Mato Grosso is the epicenter of an agricultural revolution in Brazil. During the last 15 years, expansion of agriculture in the state has helped Brazil become one of the world's top ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: El Nino disrupts Brazil soy planting in Mato Grosso, threatens second corn
SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Scarce rainfall due to the El Nino climate phenomenon has caused disparities in the speed of soy planting in Brazil's top grain state Mato Grosso and could impact sowing ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Farm-scale distribution of deforestation and remaining forest cover in Mato Grosso
An analysis of data on property size and type as well as land use reveals the distribution of deforestation, remaining forest cover and carbon stocks in Mato Grosso, Brazil’s third largest state.
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Image: Mato Grosso, Brazil
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso deep in the Amazon interior. This image combines three separate radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Gunmen and Farmers Attack Indigenous People in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul
In Brazil, a group of armed assailants and farmers over the weekend attacked Indigenous communities that had reclaimed stolen land in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The violent rampage left at least ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Brazil's top soybean grower Mato Grosso kicks off harvesting of record crop
In the east of Mato Grosso, farmer Marcos da Rosa says that the favorable climate will spur higher yields. "It's a micro-region where... we got sunny days," he said. "If I go 30 kilometers towards the ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Brazil's Mato Grosso soy harvest at fast pace
Harvesting of the 2023-24 soybean crop in Brazil's Mato Grosso state advanced 7.9 percentage points ahead of the year-earlier pace in the latest week. The oilseed crop is 21.5pc harvested as of 26 ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Welcome To Mato Grosso, The Giant Swath Of Land That's Feeding The Entire World
Since World War II, the U.S. has been hailed as the world's breadbasket, pumping grains and meat from its fertile heartland out to the world. But another country is snatching that mantle away: Brazil.
News Brazil » Mato Grosso: Land quality, deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
In the last decade, Brazil's skyrocketing agricultural production worried some observers who were concerned about the loss of forestland. Land-use policies appeared to slow that process, but other ...