ForestConservation

Bouaké, Ivory Coast:  Ivory Coast is losing about 200,000 hectares of forest annually due to agricultural expansion, infrastructure development, and other human activities, a government official has said. LCL Kone …

When forests disappear, mosquitoes don’t—they adapt, and increasingly, they bite us. In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that many species now …

By Ijeoma Olorunfemi With forests shrinking and ecosystems degrading, the global biodiversity crisis has shifted from a distant environmental concern to an urgent development challenge. Nearly one million species now …