But Tree continues key themes his creations revolve around. “I’ve long been working on the colonial past because I am from Congo,” Baloji said. The filmmaker already has ideas for future movies.

Every year, the Congo Basin’s forests soak up 1.1 billion metric tons of atmospheric carbon, storing it in trees and soil; in 2020 carbon credit prices, this service would be worth $55 billion.

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. At sunset, humid air ...

"Drawing on research from the 1930s, the film highlights the Congo Basin's vital role in consuming carbon dioxide and shaping global environmental balance over a century," an IFFR synopsis highlights.

In the Congo River Basin, people who collect bundles of wood to make charcoal are playing a surprisingly large role in the deforestation of a region that rivals the Amazon in importance.

Tree stumps scar the forest's floor after 2,100 acres of forests were felled to plant oil palms in the heart of the Congo Basin forest near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo on Sept. 25 ...

What’s the Congo Basin? The Congo Basin is the largest expanse of intact rainforest outside of the Amazon. Years of rampant deforestation in the Amazon, however, means more emissions are released due ...

These timber smuggling rackets are wrecking the ecology of the Congo basin and its contribution to the fight against uncontrolled global warming. Over 90% of the timber traded through Congo Park had ...

Tree stumps scar the forest's floor after 2,100 acres of forests were felled to plant oil palms in the heart of the Congo Basin forest near Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Sept. 25, 2019.