In September 2024, the Amazon’s worst drought in generations hit Paraizinho, a small riverside community that depends on the once-reliable Madeira River. Crops withered. Wells ran dry. The river, ...

Today's newsletter focuses on the devastating floods in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that killed ...

By Mongabay.com The Republic of Congo has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, but “uncontrolled gold mining” ...

Kinshasa faces two distinct flood hazards: first, flooding from the Congo River, which typically peaks around ... that 38 territories are the hotspot of flooding in the Congo Basin.

The changes can be seen near the town of Rubaya, where M23 has moved quickly to tighten its grip on a slice of Congo’s vast mineral wealth. Small, artisanal mines there produce around one-sixth ...

The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo river basin, of which the reserve ... A buffer zone of 50 ...

In Congo, M23 Rebels’ Latest Fight Is to Revive the Economy By David Lewis, Giulia Paravicini and Sonia Rolley GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -The M23 insurgents who routed Congo ...

The M23 insurgents who routed Congo’s army to take control of the eastern part of one of Africa’s most populous nations now face a task as mundane as it is daunting: governing. The long-term ...

arguing they would reduce river flows and violate the treaty. (More than 80% of Pakistan's agriculture and around a third of its hydropower depend on the Indus basin's water.) India, meanwhile ...

Kinshasa faces two distinct flood hazards: first, flooding from the Congo River, which typically peaks around December and ... risk analysis indicates that 38 territories are the hotspot of flooding ...