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 ...

In a new study published in the journal Current Biology, scientists explained how fossils helped them learn about dinosaurs' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Republic of Congo’s minister of mines has issued ... This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin ...

Supported by It was one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After the city of Goma fell to a rebel group known as M23 last week, the International Red Cross ...