If deforestation and forest degradation continue unchecked, at least 27 percent of the undisturbed rainforests in the Congo Basin that existed in 2020 will be lost by 2050.

The Congo Basin encompasses the world’s second largest rainforest, behind the Amazon ... Lewis led a team several years ago to map the extent of the Congo Basin peatlands.

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 ...

The Congo Basin contains the world's second-largest rainforest, crucial for regulating the world's climate. Inside it, a plan to halt the forest's decline is bearing fruit. With a gentle tug of ...

A 145,000 sq km area of peatland swamp forest has been discovered in the Congo Basin ... measurements to map an extent of 145,000 sq km. Stores of buried peat should be no great surprise in the ...

The vast rainforest of the Congo Basin, one of the most important in the world, has long been protected by its remoteness: In many places, roads are rare. But there is a river. Raft by Raft ...

Congo opens 30 oil and gas blocks for auction Congo rainforest basin is a carbon sink Govt says ... opening parts of the world's second-biggest rainforest to drilling that could release large ...

The Congo Basin—Earth’s second-largest rainforest and one of its most vital ... vice president of global programs of African forests for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

“Governments of Congo Basin countries have handed out vast tracts of rainforest for the development ... to a notoriously poor part of the world. The RFUK report notes that in many cases ...