"Congo" Blogs & Blog Posts

Despite evidence that vaping is bad for your health, Gen Z wasn't moved until they realized cobalt mining infringed on human rights.

Researchers from the Early Life Traces & Evolution Laboratory (Astrobiology / Faculty of Science) at the University of Liege have discovered the first in-situ evidence of chlorophyll remnants in a billion-year-old multicellular algal microfossil...

An eruption at Mt. Nyiragongo, one of the world's most dangerous volcanos. killed dozens and ruined homes across the city of Goma in eastern Congo.

A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that Bantu-speaking communities in the Congo rainforest underwent a major population collapse from 1600 to 1400 years ago, probably due to a prolonged disease epidemic, and that significant...

Today, the European Union granted an Ebola vaccine "conditional marketing authorization." The vaccine, developed by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, is known as Ervebo. It's the first human Ebola vaccine to be approved by the EU.

Observations of bonobos in the Congo basin foraging in swamps for aquatic herbs rich in iodine, a critical nutrient for brain development and higher cognitive abilities, may explain how the nutritional needs of prehistoric humans in the region were m...

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences reveals one of the enigmas related to the social behaviour of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the heart of the African equatorial ra...