For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. At sunset ...

Brazil and Bolivia led forest loss in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and ...

This country profile considers the complexities of the DRC's carbon sinks, the ecosystems that are natural solutions against ...

By Mongabay.com The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” ...

A remote-sensing analysis of tropical forests in the Congo Basin that are experiencing chronic ... To cause shifts in forest structure that drive climate-relevant atmospheric exchanges of carbon ...

The Amazon and Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforests, are vital for climate resilience, biodiversity and global emissions reduction. But they face growing threats from deforestation ...

If deforestation and forest degradation continue unchecked, at least 27 percent of the undisturbed rainforests in the Congo Basin that existed in 2020 will be lost by 2050.