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

As the people of Congo report an increase in the sightings of the dinosaur Mokele-Mbembe, doubts arise about this fabled ...

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 ...

The Congo Basin spans 3.4 million square kilometres, making it almost six times the size of the UK, which measures around 242,000 square kilometres. It is also Africa’s biggest rainforest and ...

The Congo Basin forest road map reveals some striking trends. Countries in the western part of the region (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of Congo) showed large amounts of road ...

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

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

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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 ...

Secondary roads accounted for forest loss and degradation rates that were 31.5 times greater than first-cut roads in the Congo Basin, 22.2 times greater in New Guinea, and 305.2 times greater in ...

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 ...