While most people think of the Amazon when discussing tropical rainforests, there's another colossal green giant quietly ...

The nearly 3,000-mile Congo River is the backbone of one of Africa's poorest and most conflict-ridden countries. A trip down the riverine highway... Congo River Pulses Life Into African Nation First ...

Barge life on the Congo River has a rhythm of its own on the long stretches of brown, soupy water. There is trading along the river, bathing, and frequent security and immigration checkpoints.

It's an age-old truth: great rivers make for great stories. The latest evidence for that are the riveting, multimedia snapshots from NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton's journey down the Congo River with ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A mysterious case of dying fish in the lower Congo River helped scientists discover that this body is the deepest river on the planet. It's also a place where raging rapids, powerful ...

THE BARGE, weighed down by half a million bottles of beer, pulls out into the middle of the Congo river. At its tip, breezy rumba music drifts out of a small radio and a group of young men sit around ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 12, 2024 (ENS) – After two months of heavy rain, the waters of the Congo River have risen higher than anyone has seen them in more than 60 years.

The Inga site on the Congo River has a theoretical capacity of 44 gigawatts, enough to power 88 nuclear reactors, but it ...

New research provides compelling evidence that a group of strange-looking fish living near the mouth of the Congo River are evolving due to the intense hydraulics of the river's rapids and deep ...

TAMPA (CBSMiami) - As a precautionary measure, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has closed its river rapids ride after four people were killed on a similar water ride at an amusement park in Australia. Busch ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -At least 107 people have died after a whaleboat caught fire in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an internal government report seen by Reuters on Friday.