"We are now in the middle of the sixth mass extinction." Scientists share ominous warning after studying world's rainforests: 'A wake-up call' first appeared on The Cool Down.

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

Many of these rainforests are household names, from the Amazon to the Congo to Australia's Daintree ... Our last tracts of undisturbed tropical rainforest have to be protected.

Eastern DRC is one of the wealthiest areas in the world in terms of minerals like gold, coltan, cobalt and tropical timber. It borders Uganda and Rwanda. Congo rainforest is the second largest ...

undermining efforts to protect the world’s second largest rainforest, a campaign group said on Wednesday (3 June). The Democratic Republic of Congo's biggest logging companies are systematically ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still ... centred around the Congo River basin, due to traditional and ...

Simon Reeve battles his way across the Congo, braving thick jungle and tropical swamps in search of the people and the wildlife who make their home in Africa's greatest rainforest.