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

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 you’re looking for a lush and diverse ecosystem, look no further than the African rainforest. You’ll find that the flora and fauna are very different from the Savanna you may be familiar with!

A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ago, some of them lived deep in a West African rainforest. “What we’re seeing is that, from a very early stage, ecological ...