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 impressive ...

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

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since ...

Health officials do not know the cause of the outbreaks, or whether the cases in the two remote villages are related ...

There are huge parts of Africa where beetles are protected. Forests in Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda and Kenya offer valuable shelter to Goliathus goliatus. Gabon, the northern ...

The journey from the base to the summit is often compared to travelling from the equator to the Arctic in just a few days.

Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas deployed high-definition cameras at four sites in the Republic of Congo’s ... chimpanzees and forest elephants. Closely related to African savanna elephants ...

The WHO Africa office said the quick progression ... which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth.