Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon. To date, climate ...
Denis Sassou N’Guesso is one of the key figures in the modern history of the Republic of the Congo. Faced with regional and ...
By Clement Bonnerot DAKAR, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Two large lakes in the Democratic Republic of Congo are releasing carbon that has been locked away for thousands of years in surrounding peatlands, ...
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Mine collapse in rare metal-rich Congo leaves 200 dead, authorities say. Rebels dispute the number
GOMA, Congo (AP) — A mine collapse at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo left at least 200 dead, according to Congolese authorities, a number disputed by the rebel group that controls the ...
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...
Carbon emissions from blackwater lakes in the Congo Basin are becoming a cause of worry. Scientists say old carbon is being released from them, and they don't know how this is happening. But they ...
In among all that life, the swamplands can cut a striking image. Lake Mai Ndombe, and its neighbor Lake Tumba, are both what’s known as “blackwater” lakes – the water, darkened by millennia of dead ...
Arthur Masuaku wants to "change the country's history"Arthur Masuaku/@FECOFAArthur Masuaku is already thinking about the ...
In a new study published in N ature Geoscience, the team focused on two darkly stained lakes shaped by organic runoff from ...
The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.
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