Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2019 and has spent years ...

By Metolo Foyet The Congo Basin, often referred to as the “second lungs of Earth,” holds immense potential for leading Central Africa’s green transition. Home to the world’s second-largest tropical ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations ...

A new study finds that lakes are likely releasing carbon that’s been held in the peatlands of the Congo Basin for thousands of years. Scientists know these lakes release carbon dioxide, which until ...

For more than 50 years, people have talked about tiny freshwater fish called shellears scaling the rock faces behind ...

The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. That’s the conclusion of the first ...

At the confluence of the Fimi and Kasai rivers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, dark water from forest landscapes meets water from the savannahs, colored red by iron oxides. The vast swamps and ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...

Dealing With the Dead by Alain Mabanckou review – surreal murder mystery in Congo-Brazzaville ...

As humans break up forests and fragment habitats, it’s not just species that are lost but also the way ecosystems work, a new ...