DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...
Their maps show southern Cameroon ... in West Africa could accelerate incursions into the heart of the Congo Basin. “Climate change is expected to reduce the suitability of land for cocoa ...
There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.
Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.
Despite claims that official maps are being followed ... threatens not just local biodiversity, but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon ...
Count northern Uganda in the days of Lord's Resistance Army; count Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga ... In Lake Chad Basin's case, most probably, the shrinking of the once mighty lake was the ...
Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.
The new study maps the distribution of multi-year drought events between 1980 and 2018. It identifies droughts by looking at a “drought index” based on changes in rainfall and potential ... occurred ...
The Rwandan shore of Lake Kivu offers leisure and relaxation. Across the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the same ...
This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...