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

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Spanning six countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin is the largest tropical rainforest on the continent and serves as the world’s most significant carbon sink. The basin absorbs an ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has met U.S. lawmaker Ronny Jackson to discuss fighting in the east ...

The East African coastal forests, ranked among the top-ten most threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world, are particularly vulnerable. The effects of climate change are already apparent on the ...