From pangolin scales to elephant tusks, from African gray parrots to manatees, the illicit trade in wildlife products and ...

Freshwater ecosystems are rich but fragile. Of the new fish species discovered, many are critically endangered ...

In the warm, humid savannahs and forests of sub-Saharan Africa dwells a tribe of flower beetles in the genus Golianthus, ...

While many Westerners find the idea of eating beetles or crickets unappetizing, this view is actually a global outlier. For roughly two billion people worldwide, eating insects — known as entomophagy ...

Eight years on, The Restoration Initiative is helping communities restore degraded landscapes – boosting livelihoods, ...

The fungus Fusarium xylarioides causes wilt in coffee plants, ultimately killing them. By studying their genetics, scientists hope to better understand and prevent this disease.

It is a war for control over some of the world's richest mineral reserves and the violence is heightened by long-standing ethnic and political tensions. In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025. The Congolese government ...

Willy Ngoma, a spokesperson for the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels fighting in eastern Congo, has been killed in a drone strike.

It’s around 5:45 a.m., dawn in Republic of the Congo. The sun is burning off the final clouds from last night’s rain, and there’s a gentle breeze rippling the thick humidity in the air. I’m waist-deep ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon. To date, climate ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...