STORY: Residents in Democratic Republic of Congo use shovels to paddle their way through flooded streets now clogged with discarded plastic bottles and other debris. The Congo River has risen to its ...

European governments and multilateral lenders have endorsed a $2.5bn programme to support conservation in the Congo Basin, the world’s second-largest rainforest, in an initiative led by France and ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

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 ...

While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

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 ...

WWF, Climate Focus and COMIFAC's new discussion paper proposes strategies to mobilize international public and private finance to conserve Congo Basin forests. Conserving the forests of the Congo ...

Congo Basin countries have announced the launch of a payments for environmental services, or PES, initiative at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, intended to encourage practices favorable to ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Congo River has risen to its highest level in more than 60 years, causing flooding throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Congo Republic that has killed more ...