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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million ...

The map below shows the location and characteristics of the 10 most severe events, with the colours representing each individual drought and its length. The longest multi-year drought occurred in the ...

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 U.N. says more than 110,000 displaced people have in recent days left settlement camps in eastern Congo’s cities ...

The relentless appetite for bushmeat, the march of industry, and the looming shadow of climate change all have a hand in destroying the Congo. Weakening the rainforest, of course, will have global ...