Johan Six

1 week ago | phys.org | Matti Barthel |Johan Six |Travis Drake |Owen Ferguson

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France—540,000km²—situated in the Congo Basin.

1 week ago | theconversation.com | Matti Barthel |Johan Six |Travis Drake

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France – 540,000km² – situated in the Congo Basin. The green corridor will follow the course of the Congo River, the world’s second largest after the Amazon, which meanders 4,374km in a long arc through central Africa.

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Brittany T. Trew |David Edwards |Alexander Lees |Regan Early |Martin Svátek |Radim Matula | +6 more

AbstractTropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics.