The palm oil industry, illegal logging and deforestation by small-scale farmers in West-Central Africa are also decimating the rainforests in the Congo Basin. "When we're removing trees ...

has pledged to tackle Amazon deforestation and repair the damage caused by his predecessor. Elsewhere, the Democratic Republic of Congo lost more than half a million hectares in 2022, primarily ...

Any decent human being has to hope that a more stable peace will soon come to the Congo, even though it will likely mean more intense deforestation. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC ...

The Congo Basin is also the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing an estimated 1.5 billion tons of carbon each year. Deforestation releases stored carbon and reduces the number of intact trees ...

Total human impact footprints of first-cut roads reached up to 1,923 hectares per kilometer in the Brazilian Amazon, 272 ...

SOMMER: In a new study in the journal Nature, Smith and his colleagues found that deforestation is directly leading to drought. In the Congo, it could reduce local rainfall by 10% by the end of ...

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

The Congo Basin, second only to the Amazon in the size of its tropical rainforest, suffered an alarming 5-per-cent increase in its rate of deforestation last year, according to the study by ...