Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th century and swiftly established itself as the cruelest imperial force in Africa. The ...

Africa’s Congo Basin is home to the second-largest rainforest on the planet. But according to a new study, this may soon not be the case. It finds that at current rates of deforestation, all ...

The rainforest in Yangambi, Congo. A new study shows that trees in the region are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The same has been seen in the Amazon, raising concerns that the ...

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 ...

They offer accurate, standardized data on how trees have responded to climate change. However, few have been done in the Congo rainforest. Fewer still have been repeated over time at the same Congo ...

Congo Basin rainforest — invest US$150 million in science The world’s second-largest rainforest is key to limiting climate change — it needs urgent study and protection.

In May 2021 Sylvain Ngouma, a local botanist at Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the north of the Republic of the Congo, led a small team of researchers through the rainforest’s verdant arrowroots.