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

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 ...

World Water Day, celebrated on March 22, serves as an annual event to reflect upon our efforts in addressing the water management challenges we face and the ...

To date, agricultural expansion in sub-Saharan Africa has mainly been driven by small-scale subsistence farmers. Yet since 2005, 22.7 million hectares of land in sub-Saharan Africa has been acquired ...

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

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

Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas deployed high-definition cameras at four sites in the Republic of Congo ... African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) roam Central Africa’s rainforests ...