Matti Barthel

1 week ago | phys.org | Matti Barthel |Johan Six |Travis Drake |Owen Ferguson

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France—540,000km²—situated in the Congo Basin.

1 week ago | theconversation.com | Matti Barthel |Johan Six |Travis Drake

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo passed a law in January 2025 to lead efforts to establish the largest tropical forest reserve in the world. It will be set up as a 2,600km long green corridor the size of France – 540,000km² – situated in the Congo Basin. The green corridor will follow the course of the Congo River, the world’s second largest after the Amazon, which meanders 4,374km in a long arc through central Africa.

Mar 8, 2024 | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Travis Drake |Simon Baumgartner |Matti Barthel

1 Introduction Rivers and streams are important conduits for terrestrial-derived carbon (C), transporting and processing significant quantities of net ecosystem production (NEP) and soil-derived carbon dioxide (CO2) to downstream ecosystems, the atmosphere, and the ocean. As such, rivers are increasingly recognized for their critical role in the global C cycle (Battin et al., 2009, 2023; Cole et al., 2007).