For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is the world's largest carbon sink, absorbing more carbon dioxide than the Amazon .

They set out to study the Congo Basin's carbon cycle and in the process have become aware of one of the world's darkest blackwater rivers: the Ruki. In the first study on this major jungle river, an ...

BETOU, Republic of the Congo, July 13 (UNHCR) - It's rainy season in the Congo. The downpours that pelt the dense primaeval jungle for six months of every year swell the Oubangui River, which rushes ...

“You’re going where?!” The look on my mom’s face when I told her I was about to board a flight to Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo was one that had, in the lead-up to my trip, become familiar.

SAO PAULO, Dec 3 (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 ...

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The water of the Ruki River in the Congo Basin is as dark as tea due to a high concentration of dissolved organic substances. When the researchers came upon the Ruki River, they were quite taken aback ...