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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There have been tremendous gains towards reaching the United Nations 90-90-90 targets to end HIV as a public health threat. The aim was that, by 2020, 90% of people with HIV would know their ...

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?

It is the year 2050. The Blue Nile has almost run dry, starved of the rains at its source that were historically sustained by atmospheric rivers flowing from the Congo Basin rainforests. Nearly ...

World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites ...

Conserving the forests of the Congo Basin is key to achieving international climate and biodiversity goals. The world’s second largest tropical forest is located in the Congo Basin, spanning six ...

The Congo Basin rainforest is very important for the well-being of the people in the region, for Africa as a whole and for the well-being of the world. Many tens of millions of people depend on it ...

We do not currently know why there are up to 10 times as many different strains of HIV-1M in the Congo Basin region than are ... Our research is filling in important pieces of this complex puzzle.