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

Rwandan-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC ... told residents they have been living in a "jungle". "We are going to clean up the disorder ...

Across a nearly impassable rainforest from the capital of Kinshasa, eastern Congo has proven impossible ... which is around 1000 miles away. Google Maps says it is a 47 hour drive from Kinshasa ...

We stared, mesmerized, at the website’s drone footage of the treehouses’ disc-like rooftops set in a verdant rainforest on a ... slow—and confusing. Apple Maps suggested we drive through ...

The new maps show that more than 25% of peatlands overlap ... And the extent of the world’s largest known tropical peatlands in the Congo Basin only came to light in the late 2010s.

The team, led by Matthew Hansen, has been working to help government authorities in the Congo Basin accurately map their forests ... a 25,000-km2 (9,700-mi2) rainforest inhabited by rhinos ...

Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial animals, according to a new ...

Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily. ... That’s why it’s so rewarding to see these incredible images.” ...

Direct peace talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and M23 rebels will begin in the Angolan capital on March 18, ...