The Congo rainforest makes its own spring rain

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2021

The Congo basin is home to the world's second-largest rainforest, whose 500 million acres have been slowly drying out for the last four decades. To figure out why the dry season is getting longer, scientists have been asking: What makes it rain in the Congo rainforest? The answer is the rainforest itself, according to a new study published in the AGU journal JGR: Biogeosciences, which publ