Rising temperatures over Africa's Congo Basin are actively altering global weather patterns. This warming pushes tropical rainfall eastward, creating a climate ripple effect. Atmospheric waves ...

Over the past 75 years, only a handful of new monkey species have been discovered in Africa—but now a new one has been found.

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 ...

Learn more about Colobus congoensis, the fifth new monkey species discovered in Africa in the last 75 years.

Pascal Mirindi is a young environmental activist based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, born in Goma. He was a member of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study created a machine-learning program that estimated the amount of carbon dioxide already stored, and sequestered annually, by ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa's largest forest, extending over the continent's west and central regions. Large populations ...

In the heart of the Congo Basin's Cuvette Centrale, a large depression hosting the world's biggest tropical wetland complex, lie two vast, shallow blackwater lakes, Lake Tumba and Lake Mai Ndombe.

The UK has abandoned projects worth tens of millions of pounds that were meant to help protect Congo rainforests and support ...

Introduction / Barry Hewlett -- Cultural diversity of African Pygmies / Serge Bahuchet -- Population genetics of Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies / Paul Verdu -- On Late Holocene population ...