Sometimes dubbed the Brazilian Serengeti, the Brazilian Pantanal contains the highest concentration of wildlife in South ...

Helen Blazis of Grafton recently returned from leading a safari to the Pantanal of Brazil.Her safari included photographers from Worcester County, and the group wanted to bring home stories of ...

Discover fascinating animals in South America, from the largest rodent to the apex predator. Explore unique South American ...

It's the Pantanal's job to slowly move an inland sea of rain (falling from November-March) southward across a flat surface that alternates from standing water to dry sandy soil interspersed with tree ...

Families living along the Paraguay River in Brazil's Midwest struggle to treat chronic illnesses and cope with trauma caused ...

2020’s record Brazilian fires, which devastated the Pantanal wetlands, also reached the Amolar Mountains in recent weeks, a refuge for jaguars and other wildlife, and home to traditional ...

The fires that tore through South America’s Pantanal region in 2020, destroying 30% of its area, are still scorched in memory. And now, the world’s largest wetland that fans out across Brazil ...

The world watched as California and the Amazon went up in flames this year, but the largest tropical wetland on earth has been ablaze for months, largely unnoticed by the outside world. South ...

Item 1 of 2 An aerial view shows burnt trees near a river in The Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, August 28, 2020. Picture taken August 28, 2020.

Poconã, Brazil — The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires ...