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 ...

Sri Lanka began transferring more than 200 sailors from an Iranian vessel to shore Friday after the ship sought assistance ...

In a new study published in N ature Geoscience, the team focused on two darkly stained lakes shaped by organic runoff from ...

I taught in the Peace Corps after college in western Kenya. We built a playground for the boys and girls after the school gained some size. The girls sat on the ground with their legs straight and ...

People buy and sell as residents return to their homes in Uvira, DR Congo, 13 December 2025 ...

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 ...

When Chadrack Mpoyi arrived from Congo, the Crean Lutheran basketball community helped him adapt to amid grief and earn a ...

A new scientific census confirms 426 chimpanzees thriving in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, strengthening conservation efforts in one of Africa’s most important great ape habitats.

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, ...