For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past ...

The Amazon Rainforest is known in part as one of the ... showing that the Amazon is even more precious than ever. The Amazon Basin has long been regarded as the lungs of the Earth.

In Brazil, home to about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, fossil fuel drilling and mining are prohibited in Indigenous ...

The other factor is fire. The Amazon basin, once likened to an Inland Sea by Alfred Russell Wallace, is becoming dryer. Huge areas of primary forest, once too wet to ever be at risk of fires ...

James Cook University-led research has revealed secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests linked to ...

Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads ...

"The increased burnings have been destroying in days, what nature takes years, centuries to build," wrote Gisele Bündchen, who has long advocated for protecting the rainforest Gisele Bündchen is ...

Adventurer describes going where nobody has been before in the Amazon rainforest. Ash Dykes and his team kayaked 380 miles from the source of the Coppename river to the sea. More than 62,000 sq km ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

the Amazon rainforest was a net carbon sink for millennia. Now, it’s joining the global warming/extreme drought onslaught. Drought Leaves Amazon Basin Rivers at All-time Low, BBC News ...