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The rainforest in Yangambi, Congo. A new study shows that trees in the region are losing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The same has been seen in the Amazon, raising concerns that the ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has taken a decisive stride towards sustainable forest management with the official ...
Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical forests, releases large amounts of nitrous oxide and binds methane. Researchers have now shown that it ...
The Congo rainforest is losing its ability to absorb carbon dioxide. That’s bad for climate change. March 4, 2020 at 11:30 pm Updated March 15, 2020 at 8:12 am ...
Africa’s Congo Basin is home to the second-largest rainforest on the planet. But according to a new study, this may soon not be the case. It finds that at current rates of deforestation, all ...
So far, the Congo’s 500 million acres of forest have remained largely intact. But maybe not for a reason that anyone can celebrate. Read: The Amazon cannot be recovered once it’s gone.
The Congo is the world’s second-largest rainforest after the Amazon and a bigger carbon sink, absorbing more than a billion tons of atmospheric carbon per year.
The Congo Basin rainforest is the second-largest tropical forest in the world, storing large volumes of carbon and hosting high levels of biodiversity. While these forests have historically stayed ...
In Congo forest, bushmeat trade threatens Pygmies. A voracious demand for game meat could drive some of Africa's last hunter-gatherers to eradicate the very wildlife that sustains them, ...
A vast rainforest stretches for 1,500 miles across central Africa. The mighty Congo River and its tributaries are the main highways into this hard-to-reach region.
The chief of Congo's Pygmy tribe says he may soon let loggers cut his people's forests, and all he expects in return are soap and a few bags of salt.
THE ITURI FOREST, Congo — They emerge from the stillness of the rainforest like a lost tribe of prehistoric warriors forgotten by time – a barefoot band of Mbuti Pygmies wielding iron-tipped ...