If tropical rainforests are the lungs of the Earth, then 2024 was a year of respiratory failure. Fires, fueled by climate ...

Running from Panama to northern Ecuador, this is the world’s wettest rainforest — and the least deforested among the major tropical zones. Sulawesi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler The outlook is ...

In early April, the Trump administration finally tapped a senior adviser for Africa: Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of ...

A recent report surveying seizures of pangolin scales and elephant ivory over the past decade has found a sharp decline ...

Ibibaya bikina inyange ku mugoroba inyana zitashye – the valleys where egrets play in the evening as calves return home. This poignant line from Umwali's popular Rwandan song, Ibyiza by'u Rwanda (The ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the richest countries in natural resources—yet one of the poorest in human development. How did a land with such vast potential end up with such a tragic ...

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon's rainfall cycle over the last 40 ...

You don't have to remove destinations that experience high humidity from your bucket list. You only need to know when to ...