Their new maps and visualizations allow scientists and land-use planners to pinpoint areas where the cycle of shifting cultivation is contained, and where it is causing new deforestation.

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?

By 2050, deforestation could cause temperatures in the Congo Basin to increase by 0.7 °C. The increase would intensify warming caused by greenhouse gases by half, according to a new study.

Authors of the new study, published this week in the journal Nature Sustainability, calculated that new roads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo led to two to three time more deforestation ...

The Congo Basin, second only to the Amazon in the size of its tropical rainforest, suffered an alarming 5-per-cent increase in its rate of deforestation last year, according to the study by ...

The world’s chocolate cravings speed up deforestation in the Congo Basin: Study. ... Gabon and the Republic of Congo — are linked to seven times more deforestation than other livelihoods.

Deforestation imperils famed DR Congo reserve as refugees flood in. Kibati (DR Congo) (AFP) – Acrid smoke swirls amid the buzzing of dozens of chainsaws under the majestic Nyiragongo volcano ...

Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a product of deforestation that an ongoing ...

Every year, the Democratic Republic of Congo loses half a million hectares of its forest, partly due to the production of charcoal. But there could be a solution to the massive deforestation.

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? Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

Deforestation imperils famed DR Congo reserve as refugees flood in. Tens of thousands of refugees have also fled to Rwanda, which DR Congo accuses of backing the Tutsi-led M23, ...