Within the dense canopy of the Congo Basin Rainforest, the afternoon light ... as trees and other plants converted the greenhouse gas to oxygen during photosynthesis, only to creep back up after ...

New research has revealed that the peatlands of the Congo Basin are ... would occur in a less soggy rainforest. As a result, much of the carbon in these bits of plants gets locked away in the ...

In just four square miles in the rainforest, you can find 1,500 flowering plant species and 750 types of trees. This is a rich mineral clearing, called a Bai, in the middle of the Congo rainforest.

Another 20% of the world's remaining rainforest exists in Indonesia and the Congo Basin ... rainforest canopy layer harbors its own unique plant and animal species interacting with the ecosystem ...

The biodiversity in the region is rich — 450 mammal species, 15,000 plant species, and 1,150 bird species roam the world's second-largest tropical rainforest ... from the Congo were a hit ...

Image Charcoal production in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Deforestation in Congo ... trajectory of deforestation worldwide. The Amazon rainforest alone lost over 13,000 square miles of ...

The scene plays out not only on this stretch of road in the Democratic Republic of Congo but all across the 1.3 million square miles of rainforest ... ecosystems of plants and animals.

"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close ... are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football fields, and some ...

The Science Panel for the Congo Basin, backed by the United Nations ... report summarising the scientific consensus on the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest. That report showed that more ...

While the Amazon is home to an impressive array of plants and animals, it is currently facing environmental challenges due to deforestation and fires. 2. Congo Rainforest, Central Africa Widely ...