In the meantime, the Congo Basin’s lack of reliable data on long-term climate change meant that the rainforest continued to be excluded or misrepresented in global reports and analysis.

The Belgian empire invaded the Congo rainforest during the late 19th century and swiftly established itself as the ... For those who pay attention to climate change, the grim ironies are hard ...

Losing the Congo Basin forests would set the fight against climate change back 20 ... its source that were historically sustained by atmospheric rivers flowing from the Congo Basin rainforests.

Dr. Lewis is a professor of global change science at University College London and the University of Leeds. A vast rainforest stretches for 1,500 miles across central Africa. The mighty Congo ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The United States will work with local leaders here in the Congo River basin to ensure that planned fossil-fuel extraction won’t result in a climate ...

During the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference held ... COP27 should be the venue where the rest of the world understands that the Congo basin rainforest stands a chance only if lasting ...

The Congo rainforest is the world’s largest after the Brazilian Amazon. It is a peerless natural resource teeming with biodiversity, and home to 40 million people.

DRC, a nation five times the size of France, is home to more than 60 per cent of the Congo Basin -- the world's second-largest tropical rainforest.

COP28: Congo youth becomes activist after seeing climate change ravage country. ... If Congolese people are outside the climate spaces, they will not know how to save the Congo rainforest.

Leaders from South American nations that are home to the Amazon are challenging developed countries to do more to stop massive destruction of the world’s largest rainforest. The members of th… ...

Indeed, while it is only one-third the area of the Amazon, the Congo Basin contains roughly 40% the carbon stock and its forests are proving more resilient to climate change than the southern Amazon.

Earth’s second great rainforest has been ... would set the fight against climate change back 20 ... sustained by atmospheric rivers flowing from the Congo Basin rainforests.