Congolese authorities and WHO teams are screening 255 passengers on the Yingfeng 2 boat on the Congo River for Ebola and cholera after a sick passenger died.
Lake Chad has shrunk by 90% since 1823, threatening 50 million people in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. Climate change, population growth, and insecurity exacerbate the crisis. A $50 billion Transaqua project is proposed to redirect water from the Congo River, alongside other multi-million dollar restoration efforts.
A new study reveals how the Congo River's massive freshwater discharge into the Atlantic is transported by powerful, short-lived ocean eddies, carrying nutrients and affecting climate and marine ecosystems across the tropical Atlantic.
