The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest ...

Belgian brains and Bantu muscle have thrust back the forest and checked the dread diseases (yaws, sleeping sickness, malaria) which sapped the Bantu’s strength. In some areas, the Congo’s ...

Around the World: Money meets morals in forest fight in Central Africa, First Nations experts spearhead media and language dialogue in Australia, Aeta community protest shuts down Mt. Pinatubo ...

A new initiative in one of the world’s most vital ecosystems – the Congo Basin – aims to unlock nature-positive, climate-resilient business opportunities for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises ...

The Congo Basin’s hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I ...

Brazil, which holds the largest share of the world’s tropical forests, lost 2.8 million hectares, the most of any country. It ...

Massive fires fuelled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on ...

Forest loss around the world surged to a record high in 2024, thanks mainly to a calamitous rise in fires, according to the latest data from the University of Maryland's GLAD Lab that is published on ...

Intense, persistent heat waves and severe drought are making devastating forest fires more likely. But new approaches can ...

Brazil and Bolivia led forest loss in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and ...

Outside the tropics, boreal forests, which evolved with seasonal fires, also posted record-high tree loss in 2024, with ...

Eighteen football pitches every minute of every hour of every day: that is the record extent of tropical rainforest destroyed ...