The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest.While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix Mangombe up ...

This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

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A mystery illness that has caused dozens of deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to from a "poisoning of a water source," according to the World Health Organization. The WHO's head ...

Analysis of satellite imagery of the Brazilian Amazon, the Congo Basin and New Guinea helps to show that ‘secondary’ roads ...

Egypt, the DR Congo, Kenya and Sudan are yet to ratify ... is now in place, the River Nile Basin was also set to get a fully-fledged Commission last October to replace the NBI.

While Congo-Brazzaville has maintained a low deforestation rate compared to neighbouring countries in the Congo Basin, its forests are increasingly under pressure from logging, agriculture and ...

Up to six new gas wells will be drilled in the Otway Basin, with operations to take place as close to 1 kilometre from a marine protected area. Campaigners say the approval is devastating for ...