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DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Home to one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, the Congo Basin casts a sprawling natural tapestry across Central Africa. It is the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, teeming with a ...

New data from a non-profit reveals that humans have degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest ... around the Congo River basin, due to traditional ...

A trip to Barbados wouldn’t be complete without sampling the island’s iconic rum, a spirit that traces its origins to this tropical ... Republic of the Congo within the heart of the Congo Basin – the ...

Lidar (light detection and ranging) scans use pulses of light to create a 3D map ... the Amazon basin and store carbon. The emerging scientific consensus is that human enhancement of the habitat was ...

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus ... The Uakari inhabits moist, tropical rainforests exclusively in the Amazon River Basin, across Brazil, Peru, and parts of southern Colombia. The ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

See All Key Ideas This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations ... Situated in the Congo Basin, the world’s largest carbon sink, absorbing 750 ...