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

The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests - along with the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions - which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests ...

The world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, spans 2.3 million square miles across nine South American countries. The second largest, the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa, covers 780,000 ...

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 ...