Their maps show southern Cameroon ... in West Africa could accelerate incursions into the heart of the Congo Basin. “Climate change is expected to reduce the suitability of land for cocoa ...

DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Despite claims that official maps are being followed ... threatens not just local biodiversity, but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon ...

Count northern Uganda in the days of Lord's Resistance Army; count Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga ... In Lake Chad Basin's case, most probably, the shrinking of the once mighty lake was the ...

Such lengthy precipitation deficits not only shrink ... events in recent decades were multiyear droughts in the East Congo basin, southwestern North America, central Asia and the southwestern ...

The new study maps the distribution of multi-year drought events between 1980 and 2018. It identifies droughts by looking at a “drought index” based on changes in rainfall and potential ... occurred ...

Despite claims that official maps are being followed ... This destruction threatens not just local biodiversity, but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world’s ...