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

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

I’m standing waist-deep in a chocolate-hued, jungle-fringed tributary of the Congo River, watching my guide wade further downstream, with his hands cupped to his ears to amplify the sounds of the ...

Despite the enthusiasm for the strange dinosaur of the Congo, sightings of it became increasingly less common throughout the last century. However, this seems to be changing. According to National ...

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

The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I ...

Congo-Brazzaville's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park and Odzala-Kokoua National Park are key biodiversity hubs, home to endangered species such as forest elephants, western lowland gorillas ...

The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

Yet, in recent years, one critical forest has continued to shine as a beacon of hope in the battle against climate change – the Congo Basin. Now, with an ambitious new initiative in the ...

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

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and rare wildlife but face increasing threats from deforestation. The countries ...