Nine Cameroonian students are part of the first cohort of scholars selected for UK-funded postgraduate research placements under the Congo Rainforest ...

When Brazil’s President Lula chose Belém - a coastal city close to the mouth of the Amazon River - to host the UN climate conference of Cop30, he did so to ensure that the world’s largest rainforest ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -European nations have backed a $2.5 billion plan to save the Congo rainforest, France's presidency told a United Nations climate summit, launching a conservation scheme that ...

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...

The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. That’s the conclusion of the first ...

Greenpeace on Tuesday called on governments to take more action to combat central African forest fires that have come into the spotlight since the global outcry over blazes burning in Brazil's Amazon ...

Rainforests are among the most important natural systems on the planet. They act as the Earth’s green lungs by absorbing carbon dioxide, releasing oxygen, stabilising global temperatures and ...