Congo River Basin News Today

From an ecological point of view, the significance of the [archaeological] sequence is that the Amazonians have always very much managed the rainforest and rivers.

Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, is experiencing increasing water scarcity due to climate change and local practices.

Director of Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA), returns from COP28

"What surprises me the most is the silence of the authorities in helping these families who are suffering."

Kinshasa (AFP) May 31, 2024 - The DR Congo capital Kinshasa on Friday launched a youth forum seeking innovative ideas to help save the Congo Basin, the worlds second biggest tropical forest after the Amazon.

The Congo Basin’s 165 million hectares pines for coherent policy on climate change, tackling air, soil pollution caused by industrial mining.

The world map has its share of black spots, areas where ecosystems are relatively unknown.

Analysis - Hugh Gray was taking his usual post-church walk around Loch Ness in Scotland on a November Sunday in 1933, when he spotted a strange sight.

Hugh Gray was taking his usual post-church walk around Loch Ness in Scotland on a November Sunday in 1933. His amble was disrupted when he saw something bobbing above the water two or three feet from him. He quickly snapped several pictures of what he described to the Scottish Daily Record as “an object of considerable dimensions”.

Is the beastie lurking in the watery depths of Loch Ness?