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

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

Before this week’s Sentebale controversy, Harry was criticized for his leadership role in a conservation organization accused ...

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 ...

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

M23 rebels in control of key areas of eastern Congo have agreed to a ceasefire with African coalition peacekeepers who ...

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

The leader of the rebels who captured two key cities in eastern Congo tells The Associated Press that international sanctions ...

“He captures the animals of the forest beautifully, and it’s wonderful to see some of the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African forest buffalo, a near ...

For every kilometre of first-cut road, the team found 4.8 kilometres of secondary roads in the Congo Basin, 9.8 in New Guinea, and 49.1 in the Amazon. The Amazon showed the most severe destruction ...

which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth. “All these viruses are viruses that have reservoirs in the forest.