Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. All tropical rainforests have similar characteristics including climate ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

Several years ago, an international consortium of researchers revealed that based on a sample of tropical old-growth forest plots across the Congo Basin, the rainforest appears to be storing ...

A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world’s three largest remaining tropical ... rainforest, the Amazon, which covers nine countries; the Congo Basin ...

“Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets ... and it’s wonderful to see some of the rarer species that live in the ...

The state of tropical rainforests differs from one continent ... while productivity remains stable in the Congo and is even increasing in the tropical forests of China, thanks in part to recovery ...

Tropical rainforests are vanishing at an alarming rate, with fires and climate change driving the destruction of thousands of ...

Egypt — The three countries that are home to more than half of the world’s tropical rainforests — Brazil, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo — are pledging to work together to ...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green ...

Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife Conservation Society “Tropical rainforests don’t give ... some of the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African ...