A new study has used satellite images and artificial intelligence to map Congo Basin forest roads in unprecedented detail. This provides crucial new information for forest conservation and management.

Map showing the Congo River drainage basin. Credit: Kmusser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a ...

These strange, sudden canopy gaps, called bais, are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football fields, and some only a few ...

Every year, the Congo Basin’s forests soak up 1.1 billion metric tons of atmospheric carbon, storing it in trees and soil; in 2020 carbon credit prices, this service would be worth $55 billion.

Until now, research assumed that the vast forest area of the Congo Basin, like other tropical forests, releases large amounts of nitrous oxide and binds methane. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now ...

THE CONGO Basin rainforest may be entirely gone by 2100 according to a 2018 study, but how much of the forest has been completely lost to deforestation?