See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest ... this with areas of high biodiversity. Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea ...

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research ... this with areas of high biodiversity. Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea ...

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding ...

Despite claims that official maps are being followed ... but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon sink. Despite claims of respecting ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

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 ...

By calculating anomalies in rainfall and evapotranspiration – the combined evaporation and plant transpiration – they were able to map the occurrence of megadroughts ... such as the one that affected ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

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 ...

The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ecosystems—has lost 23 million hectares of forest since Abong’o’s so-called dinosaur encounter, an area ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who in late January captured Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, have since been advancing around one of Africa's great lakes, Lake Kivu, towards the second-biggest city ...