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Staff at Mato Grosso's legislative assembly building in central-western Brazil got an unexpected surprise when a group of capybaras showed up in the corridors, turning an ordinary day at the ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Life: New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Legislation in effect since Jan. 1 has banned fishing in Mato Grosso state rivers for five years, with heavy opposition from environmental ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Life: Second cave-dwelling centipede of its kind discovered in Brazil’s Serra da Bodoquena
A newly described troglomorphic centipede from two hypogenic caves in Serra da Bodoquena National Park, Brazil, is only the second cave-adapted species of its genus known worldwide.
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Life: Brazilian microfossils interpreted as animal traces are actually algae and bacteria, research reveals
A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously interpreted as traces of worms or other small oceanic animals are actually ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Life: Brazil: Pesticide Bill Threatens Health, Livelihoods
(São Paulo) – The legislature of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, an industrial agriculture hub, is considering a bill that would drastically reduce buffer zones meant to limit communities’ ...
News Brazil » Mato Grosso » Life: Brazilian prosecutors investigate illegal use of native wood in corn ethanol production
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso is investigating whether corn ethanol plants are burning wood from illegal deforestation to produce the biofuel, running counter to ...