Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest. For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

The Congo has been a notable exception to this extreme deforesting trend—but that’s partly because the rainforest has played host to one of the bloodiest sustained conflicts since the Second ...

A vast rainforest stretches for 1,500 miles across central Africa. The mighty Congo River and its tributaries are the main highways into this hard-to-reach region.

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The United States will work with local leaders here in the Congo River basin to ensure that planned fossil-fuel extraction won’t result in a climate ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

Historically used models of protecting the Congo Rainforest are not without their problems. While national parks effectively protect a forest in a literal sense, ...

Tech & Science Scientists fight to protect DR Congo rainforest as threats increase. Spanning several countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin rainforest covers an immense area and is home to a ...

Scientists launch research effort at COP28 for Congo rainforest. By Jake Spring. December 3, 2023 12:01 PM UTC Updated December 3, 2023 An agent of the Brazilian Institute for the ...

Congo opens 30 oil and gas blocks for auction Congo rainforest basin is a carbon sink Govt says it will hold operators to high standards Congo hoping to take advantage of high oil prices KINSHASA ...

World’s second biggest rainforest will soon reopen to large-scale logging. The lifting of the 20-year logging moratorium in part of the Congo is fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...