A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Scheduled for mid-June, that event aims to bring together countries from the Congo, Amazon and Borneo-Mekong tropical forest basins in an effort to combat deforestation, as called for by countries ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has announced the creation of a huge new forest reserve, the size of France.

One African country is considered the cleanest on the continent and has a very strict rule in place when it comes to plastic ...

Carbon pricing is a crucial climate-policy tool. By assigning a monetary value to greenhouse-gas emissions, it creates incentives for firms to emit less and generates revenue that can be spent on ...

A former head of Gabon’s sovereign wealth fund makes the case for measuring the continent's Gross Ecosystem Product.

About 10 kilometers (6.3 miles) north of the Cameroon capital of Yaoundé, local members of the Yanda community say the ...

Forest elephant populations declined by over 90% ... Only remnant populations remain in the northern savannas, typically ...

Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to attract females. However, ...