this formidable team has spent years tracing the outlines of something huge and hidden and precious. just entering the coordinates of a point that s about three kilometres away. it s gruelling work in near impenetrable swamps full of snakes and crocodiles, but the scientists, using hand held drills, have discovered a fantastically large expanse of peat. so we want as many samples as possible from as many different locations. and this rotting vegetation is important, because it traps carbon. we estimate that there s around 30 billion tonnes of carbon stored in the peatlands of the cuvette centrale in the congo basin. and that s equivalent to around 20 years of us fossil fuel emissions, so a huge amount of carbon. the scientists here have discovered something
so, we want as many samples as possible from as many different locations. and this rotting vegetation is important because it traps carbon. we estimate that there s around 30 billion tonnes of carbon stored in the peatlands of the cuvette centrale in the congo basin, and that s equivalent to around 20 years of us fossil fuel emissions, so a huge amount of carbon. the scientists here have discovered something extraordinary in these swamps a slab of peat that s two metres deep and as large as england. it s the biggest of its kind anywhere in the world, and that makes it incredibly important when it comes to climate change. if all this carbon is released into the atmosphere, it s going to, we can say, accelerate the global change
Nine of the 16 oil blocks to be auctioned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month overlap Protected Areas, according to a review of official government maps by Greenpeace Africa.Mi
It was a banner moment at COP26, one of the climate summit’s headline achievements. On stage, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo as the two put their pens to paper. As a part of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use signed […]