For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Humans were living in rainforests as early as 150,000 years ago, reshaping long-held theories about our species' history. This revelation challenges the idea that jungles were only inhabited in recent ...

Men in dusty workwear trudge through a thicket, making their way up a hill where sprawling plantations lay tucked in a Nigerian rainforest whose trees have been hacked away to make room for cocoa ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...

Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily. ... That’s why it’s so rewarding to see these incredible images.” ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...