Three countries in Central Africa’s Congo Basin are being closely watched for the possibility of a future political upheaval or coups after the fall of the Bongo dynasty in neighboring Gabon. Cameroon ...

In the Congo Basin, unsustainable use of the environment and natural resources is diminishing people's resilience to climate change and destroying communities' livelihoods, say Catholic bishops and ...

As they marked the Season of Creation, Catholics in Africa celebrated the Congo Basin as the second "lung" of the Earth and called for its protection to fight climate change. The celebrations in an ...

Aerial photography from 2015 of rainforest clearing in the Congo Basin. Deforestation is threatening to upend the forests’ ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Photo / Getty The Congo Basin, ...

Archaeologists have dated stone tools from Lopé National Park in Gabon to 620,000 to 850,000 years ago, making them the earliest known evidence of a human presence in the Congo Basin. “In the African ...

The peatlands of the Congo Basin may be sitting on top of a pool of oil, though exploration has yet to confirm just how big it may be. Conservationists and scientists argue that the carbon contained ...

Yaoundé, Cameroon - WWF today announced that more than one million hectares of Congo Basin forests have achieved certification under the world’s leading sustainable forestry scheme. Yaoundé, Cameroon ...

At last month’s COP26 climate summit, a group of 12 international donors pledged at least $1.5 billion over the next four years to support protection and sustainable management of the Congo Basin ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist John Cannon about the dangers of destroying a hidden peatland in the Congo Basin that has locked in as much carbon dioxide as the world emits in three years.

Leaders of seven Central African countries have signed a landmark treaty to work together to help save the world’s second largest rain forest, but the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, herself an African ...

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Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal populations living in the world's second-largest rainforest, according to new research. Logging ...