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The Congo Basin: Earth's Other Great Rainforest You Rarely Hear About

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 ...
Indiatimes

The world’s deepest river: How the Congo reaches depths equal to a 70-storey building

The Congo River, the world's deepest, flows through six West-Central African nations, forming a vast basin supporting rich biodiversity and 75 million people. This vital river, which crosses the ...
CNN

‘There’s magic, there’s mythology, there’s power to these rivers’: Inside the expeditions documenting the Congo Basin

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
Mongabay

The Congo Basin’s 10 most consequential stories from 2021

For the Congo Basin, 2021 proved to be an up-and-down year. Funding commitments totaling in the billions of dollars were announced that would help forested countries preserve some of the ...
NPR

Congo Basin peatlands have trapped years' worth of carbon. How can they be protected?

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.