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

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

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 ...

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

Spanning six countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin is the largest tropical rainforest on the continent and serves as the world’s most significant carbon sink. The basin absorbs an ...

researchers have found evidence that humans lived in rainforest-like areas in Africa as far back as 150,000 years ago. "Our ...

In Africa, the earliest evidence of human rainforest habitation dated to 18,000 years ago. “Our results push back the ...

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 ...

The Amazon and its neighbours – the Orinoco and the Andean rainforest – account for 73.5 per cent of tropical forests ... Central Africa ranks third, with most of the destruction centred ...

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