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The Congo Basin: Earth's Other Great Rainforest You Rarely Hear About

While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...
CNN

‘There’s magic, there’s mythology, there’s power to these rivers’: Inside the expeditions documenting the Congo Basin

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
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The world’s deepest river: How the Congo reaches depths equal to a 70-storey building

Being the world's deepest river, the Congo River comes in top on this list. It forms a 4,700 km system that passes through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, and Angola and ...
World Bank

Congo Basin Forests Hold Trillions in Untapped Value: New Report Calls for Strategic Global Investment

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2025 - The Congo Basin, home to the world's second-largest tropical rainforest, holds immense value for not only the six countries it spans, but for the planet. A new World ...