Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Workers stand by a memorial for Democratic Republic of the Congo independence hero Patrice Lumumba ...

The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops ...

The task at hand was nothing short of grueling.  In the depths of the Amazon Rainforest earlier this year, it was a mad ...

Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. The rainforest is also the world’s most diverse habitat. Covering no more than five percent of the planet’s land area, tropical rainforests are home to half of all ...

The Congo Basin, which is the second-largest rainforest in the world, absorbs 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. The Congo Basin peatlands store an additional 29 billion tons of carbon.

A project to protect the world’s second largest area of tropical rainforest has received £9.1m from the Government. The grant which is administered by the University of Leeds will be used to ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The United Nations peacekeepers in Congo were meant to leave the country in December, but soaring violence ...

I’m excited to have the resources to work directly with scientists in other Congo Basin countries.” The grant is called the Congo Rainforest Alliance for Forest Training for Sustainable Development ...

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo enters its third decade of armed conflict, a huge number of unexploded land mines and other ordinance remain, constituting a deadly threat to civilians. That’s ...