By John Cannon The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has ...

Mt Kilimanjaro, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mt Kenya are Africa’s three highest points. Here’s how to stand atop the world’s wildest land.

The river and its tributaries flow through the Congo rainforest, the second largest ... Its sources are in the highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and ...

This incredible river is the second-longest in Africa and is also the world's deepest river, with a measured depth of around 220 metres.

See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest ... conditions for adoption of this cash crop. A mountain gorilla at Virunga National Park.

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism ...

Ash Dykes has walked the length of Madagascar, hiked the 4,000-mile Yangtze River in China and trekked solo across Mongolia ...

“Our method not only mapped well-documented droughts but also shed light on extreme droughts that flew under the radar, such as the one that affected the Congo rainforest from 2010 to 2018 ...

Droughts that stretch on for years at a time are becoming longer and more devastating for ecosystems across the globe, according to a new study.

Several of the multi-year droughts that researchers identified were ones that had gone overlooked in regions of the Andes and the Congo and Amazon rainforests ... chair in mountain water ...