Humid Chaco and Dry Chaco. The Dry Chaco, in the west and centre of Paraguay, is an area with very irregular and low-intensity rains, largely covered by scrubby xeromorphic forests. The Humid Chaco, ...

One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests.

Argentina's Micaela Camino was awarded Thursday the so-called “Green Oscar” by the British Whitley Fund For Nature (WFN) for her research work to safeguard the dry Chaco forest. “This award ...

Chaco Canyon National Historical Park is nestled ... In most places, these “middens” are gross and uninteresting—but in dry environments, the rat urine slowly crystallizes into an asphalt ...

Conservationist work in defense of an endangered species in Argentina's dry Chaco has just earned the scientist behind it a “Green Oscar.” ...

The Gran Chaco was hit by a rise in deforestation in 2024, damaging the dry forest ecosystem that spans an area more than one and a half times the size of California across Argentina, Paraguay ...