Behind the scenes of his sensational filmmaking life, Forest Whitaker is directing a utopian pilot project aimed at fostering ...

For the past 16 years, I served as a Commissioned Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest—the size of about 381 million soccer fields—was destroyed every year between 2010 and ...

The Miombo forest is also home to Africa's most iconic megafauna and the continent's endangered elephant species. It provides livelihoods and essential resources to over 300 million people.

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix ...

An estimated 2 million hectares of forest are destroyed every year in the Congo Basin. In 2022 alone, the DRC lost more than half a million hectares, 13 percent of global deforestation.

They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million hectares in extent, these forests occupy an area the same size as the Amazon rainforest. But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world.

Forest fires in Algeria killed 42 people on Tuesday, including 25 soldiers deployed to help put out the blaze, the government said, as thick clouds of smoke covered much of the mountainous Kabylie ...

Wildfires tearing through northern Algeria have now killed at least 65 people, including 28 soldiers deployed to help the firefighters. The blazes in the mountainous Kabylie region are some of the ...