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

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 ...

Until now, the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in African rainforests dated back just 18,000 years. However, this research pushes that timeline back to an astonishing 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 ...