While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...

Research has shown that the future of ebony, elephants, and a US guitar maker are all inextricably intertwined.

Glide above the immense and mysterious landscapes of the Congo River Basin with this breathtaking drone video. Witness the ...

As humans continue to encroach upon the Earth's rainforests, the natural barriers that protect us from wildlife diseases are diminishing. Up to 75 percent of all newly emerging infectious diseases in ...

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 ...

Many people, especially Indigenous communities, depend on the Congo Basin for food, water, and materials to support their farming. In some parts of the DRC, Cameroon, and Gabon, economic hardship has ...

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 ...

Blackwater lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon into the atmosphere, a new study shows. Previously, scientists thought this carbon was safely stored in the surrounding ...

Morocco is at the heart of preparations for the roundtable on financing projects from the Blue Fund for the Congo Basin.

Tool cut on pebble from the alluvial terrace of Elarmékora in the historic Epona complex of the Lopé-Okanda World Heritage Site in Gabon © Richard Oslisly The ...