After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

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

The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests - along with the Amazon and Borneo-Mekong regions - which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests ...

Eastern DRC is one of the wealthiest areas in the world in terms of minerals like gold, coltan, cobalt and tropical timber. It borders Uganda and Rwanda. Congo rainforest is the second largest ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests still ... centred around the Congo River basin, due to traditional and ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet. They have high temperatures and heavy rainfall throughout the year. Tropical rainforests lie along the equator, mainly between the Tropics of Cancer and ...

Photo from Will Burrard-Lucas and Wildlife Conservation Society “Tropical rainforests don’t give ... some of the rarer species that live in the Congo Basin.” One photo shows an African ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...