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

The prospect of dinosaurs possibly still being alive in central Africa sounds outlandish - but is being given real scientific ...

For centuries, rumours of dinosaurs still roaming the Earth have persisted - with some speculating that the prehistoric ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242 ...

Spanning six countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin is the largest tropical rainforest on the continent and serves as the world’s most significant carbon sink. The basin absorbs an ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC and endowed with century-old indigenous trees among other biodiversity, is under attack, courtesy of illegal ...

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It’s home to spectacular things, like: a majority of the Congo Basin rainforest, the second largest in the world, with magnificent flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth, and a population ...

A photo shows the leopard walking through a rainforest path ... wonderful to see some of the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African forest buffalo, a near ...

Impacts extended up to 68 kilometers from first-cut roads in the Brazilian Amazon, compared to 17.7 kilometers in New Guinea and 35.9 kilometers in the Congo Basin.