NYT Logging Industry

To understand the perilous, often illegal logging industry in the Congo Basin, we needed to get out on the water ourselves.

Lyndsie Bourgon’s “Tree Thieves” casts the American environmental movement in all its complexity.

A Times reporter, Dionne Searcey, traveled the Congo river to explore a dangerous logging trade that officials say is rife with corruption. Here is some of what she saw.

The Congo River Basin rainforest, vital in the fight against climate change, has long been protected in part by its remoteness. But the river acts as a highway for sprawling flotillas of logs, sent downstream by tiny villages and international lumber companies alike, all seeking profit from a vulnerable forest.

Dom Phillips, a British journalist, and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on Indigenous groups, have not been seen since Sunday. They faced threats before they disappeared.

Peatlands make up a tiny percentage of the Earth’s surface, but store more carbon than forests.

The world is suddenly focused on a huge natural carbon store in the Congo Basin. Its guardians are asking what they're owed for keeping it intact.

El primer análisis global enfocado en esta especie ha descubierto que la tala y la agricultura están eliminando su hábitat a un ritmo insostenible, agravando el declive de la biodiversidad en todo el mundo.

The first global analysis of its kind found that logging and farming are taking away reptile habitat at an unsustainable pace, exacerbating a worldwide decline in biodiversity.