For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

A study has revealed that this giant African woodland stores far more carbon than people realized. That could mean that ...

The team, led by Matthew Hansen, has been working to help government authorities in the Congo Basin accurately map their forests in order to receive payments for keeping them intact. With the ...

A map showing human pressure on peatlands ... And the extent of the world’s largest known tropical peatlands in the Congo Basin only came to light in the late 2010s. To check the accuracy ...

Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the “International Congo Society”, an association formed to establish his personal control of the Congo Basin.

Since November 2023 the partnership between Atos and WWF has focused on developing digital tools to support conservationists in protecting wildlife, monitoring biodiversity, and preventing the spread ...

The top map shows the whole planet, while the three inset maps below highlight chosen case studies in Peru, the Congo Basin and Indonesia. The authors find that globally, 22 per cent per cent of ...

They also provide a habitat to a range of plant and animal species, in areas as diverse as the humid Congo basin to Canada's ... The new research used available maps of peatlands and compared ...

Belgium’s King Leopold also sent emissaries to secure recognition of the “International Congo Society”, an association formed to establish his personal control of the Congo Basin ... fell following ...