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

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

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

As the people of Congo report an increase in the sightings of the dinosaur Mokele-Mbembe, doubts arise about this fabled ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

The escalating armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has had significant — and overlooked — environmental impacts. The rate of tree cover loss in Kahuzi-Biega and Virunga ...

For over a decade, the vast tracts of land surrounding some of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)’s largest cities—Kinshasa, Kisangani, Mbuji-Mayi and Kananga—have been the focus of the Forest ...