The ability of rainforests to store carbon can decrease in pace with climate change. This is due to photosynthesis rates in the leaves of rainforest species falling at higher temperatures and the ...

Rainforests in six African countries found to be more resistant to extra heat and drought than tropical forests in the Amazon and Southeast Asia NAIROBI, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's ...

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in East African grasslands before spreading out and adapting to new environments. But a new study ...

April 21 (UPI) --The dense tropical rainforest of Central Africa occupies more than 500 million acres, making it the second largest in the world. The belt of moist broadleaf forests hosts hundreds of ...

Deo D. Shirima is in the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation and at the National Carbon Monitoring Centre, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, PO Box 3010, Tanzania. The authors had ...

The dietary habits of African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) promote the survival of large, high wood density trees better at storing carbon. New research finds that forest-dwelling elephants ...

Gabon knows its oil won’t last forever, so officials are turning to the Central African nation’s rainforest for revenue — while also promising to preserve it. A plywood factory that aims to create ...