Baleinières, handmade wooden cargo ships, are floating microcosms of life in the DR Congo.
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Most lightning strike survivors have no visible scars, but their invisible injuries often go untreated.
Ancient carbon is leaking from two lakes in the Congo Basin, revealing a previously unknown link between tropical peatlands and the atmosphere.
Literature about royal animals was used in workshops to imagine better futures.
There’s a need for more surveys of macroinvertebrates in African countries.
Setting up the world’s biggest giant tropical forest reserve in the Congo Basin is a step towards conserving the area and creating jobs for local communities.
Periodic flooding in Kinshasa is a symptom of uncontrolled urbanisation.
The Ruki River supplies dissolved carbon from forest vegetation and soils to the Congo River.
The emergence of a pan-African voice in the fight against global warming, a global issue, could enable the African Union to regain ground on the international stage.
The restitution of looted objects from former colonies in Africa is an essential component of post-colonial reparation.
The Angolan Highlands are hydrologically and ecologically important - and the region’s newly mapped peatlands are valuable “carbon sinks”.
In Africa, French will only continue to embed itself - if speaking it is in the interests of Africans and not attached to French foreign policy interests.
Les textes littéraires peuvent mis à contribution pour la communication environnementale car ils sont en mesure de représenter la complexité du changement climatique.
Literary texts are useful for environmental communication and can deal with the complexity of climate change.
Many of Africa’s forests are unknown to the public at large, yet so fascinating and important.
Pour être efficaces, les formules vaccinales doivent couvrir toutes les souches émergentes, mais il subsiste beaucoup inconnues.
To be effective, vaccine formulas need to cover all emergent strains. But there are still plenty of unknowns.
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Saving African forests is a global concern and needs prioritisation.
But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
Forests must improve communities’ livelihoods to rise as a sustainable management solution
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Expert in Environmental Humanities, Sustainability Science, Foresight and Futures Studies, University of Cologne
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Research Technician, ETH Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich
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Professor of Sustainable Agrosystems, ETH Zurich
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Director General CIFOR, Director of Science CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Principal Investigator based at Centre for Research on Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases (CREMER), Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE)
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PhD student, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University
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Professor of Modern Languages and Culture , University of Warwick
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Assistant Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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Director of the Regional School of Water and the Congo Basin Water Resources Research Center (CRREBaC), University of Kinshasa
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Professor of Water Risk, University of Leeds
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Lecturer in Hydrology, University of Kinshasa
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Professor, Obafemi Awolowo University