Considerably more is at stake in the ongoing battle in Brazil's Congress and government over the country's core forest protection legislation, the Forest Code, than President Dilma Rousseff's political fortunes or Brazil's international reputation. Full...

Post-fire response by vegetation may reflect the severity of the damage suffered, but we still know little about the species-specific nature of responses to fire or their predictors. Here, we evaluated 26 woody species before and after a fire event in an Cerrado...