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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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