Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

These maps show the average annual number of tropical cyclones through the Australian region in El Niño, La Niña and neutral years. Tropical cyclones are low pressure systems that form over warm ...

See All Key Ideas This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations ... Situated in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing 750 ...

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They fear Donald Trump’s second administration will bring nothing good for the Amazon rainforest. Besides Trump’s Day 1 move to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, they fear he’ll cut U.S.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Alexis Damancio Silva can’t forget the hardship in his town of Puerto Narino in far southern Colombia last year when extreme drought nearly dried up the Amazon River.

The archaea were found in the Pastaza-Marañón Foreland Basin, a remote and under-researched ... kilometers (38,610 square miles) of flooded rainforest and swamps, beneath which lies ancient ...