Researchers say the Congo Basin rainforest recycles up to 83% of its own rainfall, sending moisture westward to key ...

Congo Basin countries have announced the launch of a payments for environmental services, or PES, initiative at the COP30 ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.

The region’s abundant biodiversity is also enduring an intense fallout from the fighting, but a new global ...

Once isolated insurgencies in remote deserts and jungles have turned into full-blown wars of terror, turning several regions ...

The Congo Basin, a region of tropical forest larger than India, is at a point where further damage may rob the world of a crucial bulwark against climate change. That was the conclusion of the first ...

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2025 - The Congo Basin, home to the world's second-largest tropical rainforest, holds immense value for not only the six countries it spans, but for the planet. A new World ...

The project is situated about 15 km west of the Johannesburg central business district, in South Africa's Gauteng province. Qala Shallows is an integral part of the WBP. An updated definitive ...

The Climate Security Advisor/UNOCA, Mabaye Dia, took part in the 2nd African Climate Summit held from 8 to 10 September 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During the Summit, young people from the Congo ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

DAKAR, Senegal — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in their ...

African advocacy groups launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection. The African Union endorsed the effort, saying the distorted map minimizes Africa’s global ...