Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation ...

In a new study published in the journal Current Biology, scientists explained how fossils helped them learn about dinosaurs' ...

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province, an environmental catastrophe is unfolding at a rapid pace. The Okapi ...

The study reveals a worrying trend: megadroughts are becoming longer, more frequent, and more severe, affecting larger areas worldwide.

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

The continent of Africa is home to some incredible and diverse landscapes - ranging from vast deserts and towering mountains, to lush rainforests and savannahs which make for the perfect safari.

NAIROBI — An armed rebel group backed by Rwanda took full control of a key provincial capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, residents said, after days of bloody ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to ...