The Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Central Africa, has endured decades of conflict and instability despite being ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Brazil are home to the world’s biggest rainforests. Their challenges are similar, but on climate they are pursuing divergent paths.

Oil exploration in the Congo rainforest would be a pollution disaster for communities that depend on it and for wildlife.

That protection is part of an experiment unfolding here in the Congo Basin: giving power to the people in an attempt to preserve the world’s second-largest rainforest. Deforestation rates have ...

High-definition trail cameras at a national park in the Republic of the Congo revealed a “truly breathtaking” glimpse of some elusive rainforest animals. Conservationists hope the project ...

Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about the Congo River basin and its ...

The Congo rainforest is the world’s largest after the Brazilian Amazon. It is a peerless natural resource teeming with biodiversity, and home to 40 million people.

Deaths, mass rapes, kidnappings for ransom, displacements, money laundering and costly environmental harm are the results of the violent competition for natural resources in eastern DRC.

The Congo Basin contains the world’s second-largest rainforest at a staggering 178 million hectares (just under 440 million acres). It is also one of the biggest carbon sinks on the planet ...

On July 28, the Democratic Republic of Congo government began an auction for licensing rights to 27 oil and three methane gas blocks. It was the same day the United Nations recognized the human ...

YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon — A leading Catholic priest and academic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has bemoaned worsening poverty despite the enormous natural resources found in a country almost ...