What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research ... this with areas of high biodiversity. Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea ...

By John Cannon Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much ...

The Indonesian government is targeting protected forest areas as part of its plan to convert 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of forest into “food and energy estates,” a move that could result ...

The project’s aim was to conduct a regional climatic analysis covering all of Rwanda and visualizing it on new maps ... climate, which used to be concentrated in the regions of the Virunga volcano ...

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 ...

Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

In October 2024, climate activists in the DRC won the suspension of a controversial oil and gas licence auction that threatened the Congo Basin rainforest and Virunga National Park, two carbon ...

As Rwanda-backed rebels strolled through the streets of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's second-largest city, President ...

See All Key Ideas This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations ... Nature and Climate” in the Congo. Joining the REDD+ process, with the aim ...