Explore countries starting with 'C', like Canada's vast wilderness, China's ancient wonders, and Costa Rica's biodiverse ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.

JUSTYNA GUDZOWSKA is Executive Director of The Sentry. Previously, she worked on sanctions and countering the financing of terrorism at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Obama ...

For the Indigenous Gayo, Alas, Kluet, Aneuk Jamee, and Karo peoples, Leuser is not merely a forest—it is sacred ancestral land. Their stewardship has kept the ecosystem intact for centuries. But in ...

Our planet is filled with incredible beauty, much of it hidden in corners of the Earth that few people have discovered. These hidden gems offer unique, breathtaking landscapes that are often ...

Many may blend with adjoining mangrove forests, moist forests, mountain forests, ... Another 20% of the world's remaining rainforest exists in Indonesia and the Congo Basin, ...

Some 50 Pygmies of the Baka clan lead me single file through a steaming rain forest in Cameroon. Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes and cut ...

Other factors complicate the DRC’s task. The rugged mountain and rainforest terrain of the Kivu makes an offensive against an entrenched M23-Rwanda coalition perilous, asking for heavy firepower and a ...

Mount Karisimbi is a stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains, located on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At 4,507 meters, it is the highest peak in the range, part ...

Home to a staggering array of biodiversity like forest elephants, chimpanzees, bonobos, and lowland and mountain gorillas, the Congo Basin's importance for both climate and biodiversity cannot be ...

Following the mapping in 2017 of vast peatlands beneath the forest containing a staggering 30 billion tons of carbon, scientists now believe that the Congo Basin is the world’s most vital rainforest ...