Nearly 190,000 hectares of forest were converted to mines in Africa between 2001 and 2020, according to researchers at the ...

The creatures, which weigh about the same as a small dog, have spiky black hair, orange-cream skin around their mouths and a ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Uganda's chimpanzee experiences are among the finest on earth. And nowhere is that more evident than in two remarkable ...

New research examining mining across Africa suggests the sector is driving far more forest loss than the size of mine sites alone would indicate. The study points to impacts that spread into ...

A new study presents the first large-scale analysis of fire patterns in West and Central Africa's wet, tropical forests. The number of active fires there typically doubled over 18 years, particularly ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A forest carbon deal between Blue Carbon and the nation of Liberia would give the company exclusive rights to control 10% of the nation’s land mass ...

By Wanjira MathaiData from Global Forest Watch, the world’s most trusted platform for real-time forest monitoring, has revealed that global tree cover loss in 2025 was 25.5 million hectares—an area ...

Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations’ biggest agricultural ...

"For years, Sambisa forest has represented one of the darkest chapters in Africa's contemporary security history.