Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

The team, led by Matthew Hansen, has been working to help government authorities in the Congo Basin accurately map ... a 25,000-km2 (9,700-mi2) rainforest inhabited by rhinos, tigers, orangutans ...

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 ...

Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily. ... That’s why it’s so rewarding to see these incredible images.” ...

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 ...

High-definition trail cameras at a park in the Republic of the Congo reveal elusive rainforest animals ... the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African forest ...

Home to one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, the Congo Basin casts a sprawling natural tapestry across Central Africa. It is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, teeming with a ...