Major flooding in several neighborhoods of Congo’s capital Kinshasa has killed at least 19 people and caused severe damage ...

For the first time since rebel forces took control of Goma, the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo, Bintou Keita, met face-to-face with the leaders of M23 rebels on Friday in the ...

The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo met with leaders of the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 on Friday in Goma, ...

Virunga is Africa’s first national park, created by Belgian royal decree in 1925. Named for the mountains that straddle the ...

By Marina Martinez Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation. However, climate change is threatening their ...

The conversion of forests to cropland, particularly for small-scale agriculture, has steadily increased over the past two ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Here is an index map of 20 major timber types in the United States as ...

The countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, ...

US President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban Wednesday targeting 12 countries, saying it was spurred by an attack on a ...

ABSTRACT: Seed dormancy and seed-borne fungi are main biological constraints to the domestication of edible non-timber forest products such as Tetrapleura tetraptera fruits. This study aimed to ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long ...