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

In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the ...

showing evidence for alluvial deposition in a tropical forest environment consisting of riparian, swamp, and rainforest taxa, ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...

Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National ...

The research team also suggested that the West African tropical rainforest could have been a central area for early human evolution. They plan to conduct further studies at other archaeological ...

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested.

But this is not the only tropical rainforest with natural beauty to behold. South America, Africa and India also have an abundance of wildlife and wonder. But what is it that makes this biome home ...

Where do you find rainforests? Tropical rainforests are found across the world near the Equator in South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in ...