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The earliest dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon and other regions of South America and Africa-and their remains might ...
The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, propose that the remains of the first dinosaurs might lie ...
A more intact forest than regions like the Amazon, Central Africa's Congo Basin saw deforestation increase by 5% in 2021, according to a report released on Thursday by environmental group Climate ...
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.
The Amazon and Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforests, are vital for climate resilience, biodiversity and global emissions reduction. But they face growing threats from deforestation ...
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 ...
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.
The Congo is the world’s second-largest rainforest behind the Amazon, and King Leopold II treated it like a personal loot box. ... the region ignited into the First Congo War.
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.
Using data gathered across the tropical Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia regions between 2003 and 2017, Smith and his colleagues found that large-scale deforestation disrupts the water cycle and leads ...
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 ...
Using data gathered across the tropical Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia regions between 2003 and 2017, Smith and his colleagues found that large-scale deforestation disrupts the water cycle and ...