Chisomo M’hango is a trainee field ecologist at Musekese Conservation (MC), a nonprofit whose research station is located ...

As record wildfires erupt across Canada this year, with health-threatening smoke drifting into the U.S. and as far away as ...

A short boat ride from Belém, an Amazon island offers a living lesson of the climate crisis that leaders will debate.

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The Imaginary Tree that Hides a Forest Despite being nearly 80 times smaller than the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda is often blamed for the instability and poverty that characterize ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...

The Republic of Congo had been protecting about half of its dense rainforests via the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) framework. In exchange, the country is ...

A once-in-a-lifetime trek through the Republic of Congo’s rainforest leads to an unforgettable encounter with one of our closest relatives.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet.