Biodiversity is the bedrock of resilience, and kelp forests show why.

African policymakers, environmental experts and youth groups have called for urgent action to build deforestation-free value chains in Ethiopia as countries across the continent face increasing ...

The first authoritative population assessment for African forest elephants estimates there are more than 145,000 individuals. Researchers say new survey techniques relying on sampling DNA from ...

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive ...

Professor Heiko Balzter, Dr Nezha Acil (right) and University of Leicester colleagues at a zoobotanical garden at the Museu Emilio Goeldi in Belém, with trees and animals from the Amazon.

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon dioxide and helping to steady a warming planet. New research now shows that ...

Research has shown that the future of ebony, elephants, and a US guitar maker are all inextricably intertwined.

Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don’t yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

* Congo Basin seen valuable in climate change battle * Forest preservation costs African nations * Countries may not endorse deal without compensation By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The ...