Five fruit trees that are native to the Atlantic Rainforest were found to have potential anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, reveals a study supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation. ...

At the port of Igarapé da Fortaleza, in the far north of Brazil, dock workers unload large orange-red sacks from small wooden boats. Small dark berries scatter around the dock, staining everything ...

There’s a new “superfruit” in town and it’s called acai. Pronounced ah-SIGH-ee, this Brazilian berry is being infused into seemingly everything, from juices and smoothies to cereal and nutrition bars.

FORT PIERCE — Biologists want your help in the fight against one of Florida's most notorious invasive species. For decades, the Brazilian peppertree has swept throughout Central and South Florida, ...

In the Brazilian Amazon, the Acai berry is creating a farming boom. Indigenous groups discovered the benefits of the Acai more than a century ago, and now it has taken off in the rest of the world.

When the forest fauna goes to sleep, a tree frog prowls the coastal Atlantic Forest of Brazil during nightly expeditions in search of the milk fruit tree, drawn to the delectable nectar inside its ...

ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 5 (UPI) --A tiny bug from South America could help landowners in Florida and other states start winning a decades-long, multimillion-dollar war against invasive Brazilian pepper ...