Ash Dykes, who is known for his extreme expeditions, is documenting his monthlong, 434-mile journey through the Congo River ...

TikTok adventurer Ash Dykes is attempting a 434-mile journey down Central Africa's Sangha River in an inflatable kayak.

A landmark genomic study of 280 wild gorillas using non-invasively collected faecal and hair samples reveals hidden ...

Trees in Africa’s vast Congo Basin are being cut down at a faster rate even as deforestation in other tropical regions slows.

Protected areas are protected areas,” says Nadège Nzoyem, WWF’s regional director for the Congo Basin. For her, mining has no ...

Fresh details reveal how the 40-year-old businessman flew and crossed regional borders while seriously ill.

More than half of Ituri’s new positives on Oct. 9 came from swabs of the dead, while a man who had been ill for a month ...

Lurking in the muddy rivers of Africa is a fish so bizarre it seems borrowed from another animal entirely, and that strange ...

Birds, dogs, elephants, fish, geese, giraffes, gorillas, octopuses and squirrels feature as we spotlight animals and the FIFA World Cup™.

In an interview, Dr. Peter Piot recalled when he first saw the spindly virus under a microscope and reflected on a ...

There’s a classic John Mulaney joke about how cartoons make quicksand seem like an everyday hazard. However, quicksand isn’t the only childhood fear that ...

Influencer Ash Dykes is making his way through the Congo Basin — even if he was off to a rocky start. The self-described ...