Deforestation, weak governance and extractive pressures also threaten this vital ecosystem, scientists said in the landmark ...

Here's the list of the largest rainforests in the world, including the 5.5 million km² Amazon. Learn why the Amazon and Congo ...

Earth's vital rainforests, crucial for oxygen production and climate regulation, face severe threats from deforestation and ...

COP30 success depends on equity, transparency and timely disbursement as negotiators say direct, grant-based funding is ...

The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a ...

From the vast Amazon to Siberia’s frozen taiga, Earth’s major forests hold the planet’s largest carbon reserves, silently storing billions of tons that regulate our global climate balance.

The region's forests now absorb 600m tons of CO2 a year, down from 1.5bn tons two decades ago due to deforestation ...

The African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the African Development Bank Group, the United Nations Economic ...

In tonight's edition, the UN’s aid chief meets Sudan's army leader as the war deepens with reports of mass killings and a growing humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Darfur. Also, Ghana's ...

European governments and multilateral lenders have endorsed a $2.5bn programme to support conservation in the Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, in an initiative led by France and ...

Indigenous groups and NGOs caution that the facility risks becoming another top-down market mechanism that benefits investors ...