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Africa’s Congo basin, vital to Earth’s climate, is critically understudied

IOL · Published 49m ago
Africa’s Congo basin, vital to Earth’s climate, is critically understudied

The Congo Basin is the world’s biggest tropical storehouse of carbon, its forest stretching almost across the African continent and covering an area larger than India. Yet little is known about it. Now a group of almost 200 scientists are trying to change that.

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Climate and weather events like this can affect communities, infrastructure and local economies. Directly involves India.

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Climate and weather events like this can affect communities, infrastructure and local economies. Directly involves India.

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