And the Congo Basin is the second largest rainforest in the world, the first one is Amazon. But even though it’s the second largest, it’s the place that sequestered most of the carbon in the ...

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).

Some of the most important forest carbon sinks are found in Africa, such as the Congo Basin Rainforest, also known as the ‘lungs of Africa’. This rainforest is the world’s second-largest tropical ...

The republic is in the Congo Basin, the second-largest tropical rainforest and the largest tropical peatland in the world. Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. What's being done about ...

Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has sought out a deal with the Trump administration, offering mineral access in return for ...

Eastern Congo has been in and out of crisis for decades. The conflict has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with more than 7 million people displaced, including 100,000 who ...

Rubaya mines in Congo are rich in coltan, essential for electronics. Armed groups control the mines amid ongoing conflict. M23 rebels profit by taxing coltan trade, exporting it through Rwanda.

RUBAYA, Congo — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi ... “The whole country, the whole world knows that phones are made from the coltan mined here, but look at the life we live, ...

A new dataset and analysis released by World Resources Institute finds global ... The data revealed that in the Congo Basin, shifting cultivation remained the primary driver of tropical forest ...