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

Matthew Hansen, a remote-sensing scientist with the University of Maryland, U.S., has been working with local authorities in the Congo Basin to map their forests, including Virunga, so they could ...

A map showing human pressure on peatlands ... And the extent of the world’s largest known tropical peatlands in the Congo Basin only came to light in the late 2010s. To check the accuracy ...

A study has revealed that this giant African woodland stores far more carbon than people realized. That could mean that ...

Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the “International Congo Society”, an association formed to establish his personal control of the Congo Basin.

Since November 2023 the partnership between Atos and WWF has focused on developing digital tools to support conservationists in protecting wildlife, monitoring biodiversity, and preventing the spread ...

The top map shows the whole planet, while the three inset maps below highlight chosen case studies in Peru, the Congo Basin and Indonesia. The authors find that globally, 22 per cent per cent of ...

The toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, destroyed homes and created a pollution problem for an entire region.

tracking to The Democratic Republic of Congo with National Flag Aerial view on a meandering jungle river in the Congo rainforest Aerial view of a meandering jungle river in the cloudy and dense ...

Near the western New Mexico town of Grants, the toxic legacy of Cold War uranium mining and milling has shattered lives, ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...