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

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

It’s home to spectacular things, like: a majority of the Congo Basin rainforest, the second largest in the world, with magnificent flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth, and a population ...

But the park, which is part of the 60 per cent Congo basin rainforest found in DRC and endowed with century-old indigenous trees among other biodiversity, is under attack, courtesy of illegal ...

A photo shows the leopard walking through a rainforest path ... wonderful to see some of the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African forest buffalo, a near ...

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 ...