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Der Spiegel

October 20, 2023

»Eigentlich Dschungeltee«: Kongo-Zustrom Ruki ist der wohl schwärzeste Fluss der WeltDer riesige Ruki-Fluss im Urwald blieb wissenschaftlich lange unbeachtet. Nun hat ein Schweizer Team den Strom in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo untersucht – und ist von seinem außergewöhnlich dunklen Wasser beeindruckt.

Daily Mail (UK)

October 19, 2023

Pitch BLACK river is so dark you can't see hand in front of your faceThe Ruki River, a tributary of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of the world's darkest bodies of water.

SwissInfo

October 18, 2023

Zurich researchers identify perhaps darkest river in the worldZurich researchers have identified one of the darkest rivers in the world. The Ruki River in the Democratic Republic of Congo is darker than the famous Rio Negro in the Amazon.

ETH News

October 18, 2023

ETH Zurich researchers study one of the world’s darkest rivers

Nature

April 21, 2021

Rivers give off stealth carbon at nightEmissions made under cover of darkness account for much of the carbon flux from flowing waters.

Nature Geoscience

July 31, 2020

Soil carbon unearthedSoils store vast quantities of carbon and have the potential to help mitigate or exacerbate climate change. We need to better understand the interplay of chemical, physical and biological processes that govern soil carbon cycling and stability.

Earther

July 3, 2019

The World's Second-Largest Rainforest Is Losing the Carbon It’s Held for a Thousand YearsThe Congo Basin is the second-largest rainforest on Earth, and like most tropical forests, it’s getting chewed up by humans. That’s a problem for the climate, and not just because trees are a natural sponge helping to mop up humanity’s ever-rising carbon emissions. New research suggests that as trees are replaced with fields for agriculture, carbon that’s been locked up in the Congo’s soils for hundreds to thousands of years is starting to seep out.

Nature

June 24, 2019

Deforestation releases old carbonDeep soil carbon in tropical catchments can be rapidly mobilized to rivers upon land-use change to agriculture, suggest analyses of dissolved organic carbon. Such carbon stocks had been thought stable for millennia.

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FSU Research News

June 24, 2019

Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of CO2 - Florida State University NewsThousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study from researchers at Florida State University. In an investigation of 19 sites in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, researchers discovered that heavily deforested areas leach organic carbon that is …

FSU Research News

February 8, 2018

FSU researchers: Savanna fires pump Central African forests full of nitrogen - Florida State University NewsThe remote forests of Africa’s Congo Basin have long been a blind spot for scientists working to understand how Earth’s natural cycles respond to the environmentally unique characteristics of different regions. Now, two Florida State University researchers are part of a global team of scientists revealing the unexpected role that large-scale fires and high nitrogen …

FSU Research News

October 30, 2015

Globetrotting grad student searches for answer to one scientific query - Florida State University NewsSix Weeks. Four Continents. One Question. How is mankind affecting the global carbon cycle? That was Travis Drake’s introduction to Florida State University this fall. The new doctoral student, studying with Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Robert Spencer, spent his first few weeks with some serious on-the-job training. Spencer’s …

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