Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be ...

In a new study published in N ature Geoscience, the team focused on two darkly stained lakes shaped by organic runoff from ...

The vast swamps and peatlands of the tropics play an important role in the global carbon cycle and consequently in the global climate. The Amazon basin, the Congo basin, and the tropical wetlands of ...

People cross floodwaters in the Pompage district of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 9, 2024, following heavy rains. [AFP] International funding is insufficient for the Democratic ...

As Mongabay deepens its reporting across Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, award-winning senior science journalist Aimable Twahirwa is bringing his decades of experience to ensure the ...

An Indigenous union of approximately 10,000 artisanal miners and activists from the Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) emphasized the importance of grassroots initiatives in ...

Their investigation centered on two lakes: Lac Mai Ndombe, Africa’s largest blackwater lake, and the smaller Lac Tumba. Both bodies of water are surrounded by swamp forests and lowland rainforest ...

While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly doing incredible work for our planet. The Congo Basin rainforest spans six ...