As the people of Congo report an increase in the sightings of the dinosaur Mokele-Mbembe, doubts arise about this fabled ...

Using two decades of satellite data, researchers found that forest loss and fragmentation were among the strongest predictors ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Secondary roads branching from major highways in tropical forests significantly contribute to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin, and New ...

Madagascar has been particularly hard hit by deforestation, having lost half its forests over the past 60 years. While Congo-Brazzaville has maintained a low deforestation rate compared to ...

Image   Lire en français The Pulitzer Center is organising a conference-debate on the theme: ‘Deforestation and food ...

But we're losing forests at an alarming rate. Two-thirds of global forest cover loss is occuring mainly in the tropics and sub-tropics, where vast clusters of deforestation hotspots are destroying the ...

Total human impact footprints of first-cut roads reached up to 1,923 hectares per kilometer in the Brazilian Amazon, 272 hectares in New Guinea, and 186 hectares in the Congo Basin. Extensive road ...

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and rare wildlife but face increasing threats from deforestation. The ...