DRC has launched a plan for a green corridor at the world's largest protected area - but local people say they haven't been ...

Peatlands are important — the UN Environment Programme estimates as much as 600 billion tonnes of carbon are stored there, as decaying organic material gets trapped inside a water-rich environment.

There is a “mismatch” between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

Their maps show southern Cameroon ... in West Africa could accelerate incursions into the heart of the Congo Basin. “Climate change is expected to reduce the suitability of land for cocoa ...

Count northern Uganda in the days of Lord's Resistance Army; count Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga ... In Lake Chad Basin's case, most probably, the shrinking of the once mighty lake was the ...

Conservation projects across the world are reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to shut down USAID and freeze foreign aid, as groups large and small scramble to fill sudden funding ...

Converting land in the Congo Basin, for example ... (LIFE)—an easy-to-use, map-based metric that can give users a near-instant score for a given piece of land. LIFE can be used to score overall ...

Despite claims that official maps are being followed ... but the global climate, as the Congo Basin rainforest serves as the world's second-largest carbon sink. Despite claims of respecting ...

Joint venture formed to explore Chu-Sarysu Basin, the world's third-largest sedimentary copper basin Licence package of up to ...