This is the second article in our four-part series “The Congo Basin peatlands.” Read Part One, Part Three and Part Four.. The announcement came in mid-2019: A pool of oil lay deep beneath a ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a massive country, with a land area the size of Alaska and Texas combined. It’s also home to a large part of the Congo Basin rainforest, a habitat for ...

Read Part One, Part Two and Part Three. The muddy cores that Ian Lawson and his colleagues pull from the swampy peatlands of the Congo Basin might not look like much at first glance. Layers of ...

The Congo Basin is also the natural habitat of about 400 species of mammals, 1,000 species of birds and 700 species of fish. For comparison, the Nile River has about 800 unique species of fish ...

Congo Basin peatlands have trapped years' worth of carbon. ... And it's actually pretty healthy in terms of rainforest in this part of the world. But then when you get down below it, ...

Low N2O and variable CH4 fluxes from tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin. Nature Communications , 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27978-6 Cite This Page : ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...

Gabon is part of the Congo Basin, with 88% of its land covered by tropical forests that are home to wildlife including critically endangered western gorillas and forest elephants and endangered ...

Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they’re being auctioned off for drilling.

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, ... Professor Six began the preliminary work for this study in 2008/09, taking part in two expeditions to the Congo River.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist John Cannon about the dangers of destroying a hidden peatland in the Congo Basin that has locked in as much carbon dioxide as the world emits in three years.