When you hear ‘rainforest’, you might think ... to be hundreds of years old (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) The origin of the name of this petite oak wood is shrouded in various theories.

If that’s not scary enough, another tale tells the story of a man who attempted to fell one of the ancient trees… but the oaks got their revenge, curling their roots around the man, crushing him to ...

New research in the Congo Basin is revealing how this daily rhythm of the world’s second largest rainforest influences ... pointing to images of beans and seeds at various stages of sprouting ...

Image via Deposit Photos Melanin is the natural pigment found ... Although these black animals are mainly frugivorous, being responsible for most of the seed dispersion in the Congo rainforest. They ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Image via Neil Palmer/CIAT ... the Negro and the Madeira, exceed the Congo River in volume. The ...

and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like creature was dubbed mokele-mbembe, a name which translates loosely to ...

The Congo is the second largest rainforest, next to the Amazon. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is finalizing an ambitious—and risky—new plan for the future management of its rainforest ...

Image by Elodie ... the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP). Read the first part of this two-part ...

It's part of the the Congo Basin rainforest — the world's second-biggest ... consists of several semi-industrial sites. Satellite images analyzed by AP show consistent development along ...

The numerous playgrounds are visible in satellite images, and AI analysis ... north of the Republic of the Congo, led a small team of researchers through the rainforest’s verdant arrowroots.

"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close-packed trees ... are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football ...