The earliest dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon and other regions of South America and Africa-and their remains might ...

The perimeters of the Amazon and Congo Basin forests are highly vulnerable to new and emerging infectious diseases. A new research center, the EpiCenter for Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence, ...

The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, propose that the remains of the first dinosaurs might lie ...

Among the regions at risk is the Congo Basin forest, the second-largest tropical rainforest, after the Amazon, mostly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The region absorbs tons of carbon dioxide ...

An astonishing 96 per cent of forest loss is taking place in tropical regions of the Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia, where a football field of forest is lost every five seconds.

Threats from logging and mining. Spread over six countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon, the rainforest is home to more than 75 million people and 10,000 tropical ...

Congo Basin vs the Amazon: a tale of two forest fires. The Amazon is burning but recent NASA satellite images show large parts of central Africa are also on fire.

Amazon summit calls on developed nations to fulfil climate funding deals. Twelve countries, representing the Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, join pact for rainforest funding.

However, the new study found a massive disparity between locations of camera trap studies and regions with the highest risk of mammalian extinction, such as the Congo Basin and the Amazon Rainforest.

The eight countries that comprise the Amazon River basin agreed on several initiatives to curtail deforestation in the world’s largest and most important rainforest. By Manuela Andreoni and Max ...

In this aerial image, smoke covers a section of the Amazon rain forest affected by wildfires on August 25, 2019 in the Candeias do Jamari region near Porto Velho, Brazil.

In the Amazon, Congo, and Indonesia, the three regions that are home to nearly all of the world’s tropical rainforests, the human motivations behind and methods of deforestation are entirely ...