Best Thing in Texas A Rare “Lost Bird” Was Feared Extinct. Texas Scientists Just Found It in the Congo. The yellow-crested helmetshrike hadn’t been seen in decades—and it wasn't the only ...

Scientists photographed a “lost bird,” a yellow-crested helmetshrike, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo shows a representative area of the Itombwe mountains. Screengrab from David ...

On a floodplain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a shrinking pond, doomed to eventually dry up. Inside its murky ...

Tropical forests in eastern Congo that fell into rebel hands this year have seen a spike in illegal logging to produce charcoal and timber, residents and environmentalists said, raising fears of ...