However, because the much smaller swamp forests of the Congo Basin periodically emit enormous amounts of this greenhouse gas, the Congolese tropical forest as a whole seem to be a source of methane.

Low N2O and variable CH4 fluxes from tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin. Nature Communications , 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-27978-6 Cite This Page : ...

A ministerial commission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has recommended terminating 30 forest concessions due to alleged irregularities, it said in a preliminary report published on Tuesday.

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.

Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the country’s rainforest from oil and gas interests Wanjohi Kabukuru Wednesday 01 February 2023 ...

Establish, operate and manage the Congo Basin Forest Hub, composed of the national forest program managers and supported by the WWF Network. Capacity building of the Congo Basin Forests Team across ...

The ADF was founded in 1995 in Uganda as an armed Islamist group, but a crackdown in the early 2000s forced the fighters to flee across the border into the mountainous forests of eastern Congo.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Hundreds of scientists at the United Nations COP28 climate summit on Sunday launched a research coalition aimed at correcting a historic lack of information about the Congo ...

Tree stumps scar the forest's floor after 2,100 acres of forests were felled to plant oil palms in the heart of the Congo Basin forest near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 25, 2019.

STORY: Under the once-lush slopes of the Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders are hard at work.These chest-high sacks of charcoal, in the town of Kibati, are the product ...

The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia on Monday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation after a decade of on ...

Local climate activists in Congo are hoping Pope Francis’ visit will help spur action to protect the country’s rainforest from oil and gas interests.