For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close ... are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football fields, and some ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

Over half of the Congo basin's 500 million hectares of forest are in Congo, whose forests boast the 5th greatest diversity of animals and plants in the world. Logging in Congo has long been ...

A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, challenging previous beliefs that they emerged ...

It’s part of the Congo Basin rainforest — the world’s second-biggest — and a vital carbon sink that helps mitigate climate change. It also has vast mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife.