Three countries in Central Africa’s Congo Basin are being closely watched for the possibility of a future political upheaval or coups after the fall of the Bongo dynasty in neighboring Gabon. Cameroon ...
The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...
In the Congo Basin, unsustainable use of the environment and natural resources is diminishing people's resilience to climate change and destroying communities' livelihoods, say Catholic bishops and ...
As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the Earth and called for its protection to fight climate change. The celebrations in an ...
Aerial photography from 2015 of rainforest clearing in the Congo Basin. Deforestation is threatening to upend the forests’ ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Photo / Getty The Congo Basin, ...
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Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor
By Elodie Toto Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a ...
Archaeologists have dated stone tools from Lopé National Park in Gabon to 620,000 to 850,000 years ago, making them the earliest known evidence of a human presence in the Congo Basin. “In the African ...
Yaoundé, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have achieved certification under the world’s leading sustainable forestry scheme. Yaoundé, Cameroon ...
The peatlands of the Congo Basin may be sitting on top of a pool of oil, though exploration has yet to confirm just how big it may be. Conservationists and scientists argue that the carbon contained ...
At last month’s COP26 climate summit, a group of 12 international donors pledged at least $1.5 billion over the next four years to support protection and sustainable management of the Congo Basin ...
Leaders of seven Central African countries have signed a landmark treaty to work together to help save the world’s second largest rain forest, but the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, herself an African ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist John Cannon about the dangers of destroying a hidden peatland in the Congo Basin that has locked in as much carbon dioxide as the world emits in three years.
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