The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ... Spanning an area second only to the Amazon, it is often called the “lungs of Africa.” It absorbs 1.5 billion ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Over half of the Congo basin's 500 million hectares of forest are in Congo, whose forests boast the 5th greatest diversity of animals and plants in the world. Logging in Congo has long been ...