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

By John Cannon Peatlands around the globe hold more carbon than all the world’s forests, and yet new research reveals a much lower proportion are protected compared to other ecosystems. Just 17% of ...

Beneath the Cuvette Centrale peatlands in the central Congo Basin ... the Republic of Congo's capital city. A simplified map of the Congo Basin peatland: Peat swamp forest (pink); open water ...

while the three inset maps below highlight chosen case studies in Peru, the Congo Basin and Indonesia. The authors find that globally, 22 per cent per cent of peatlands are under high human pressure, ...