Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more ...

They are also sanctuaries for endangered species. But most of the fires shown on the NASA maps of Africa are outside sensitive rainforest areas, analysts say, and drawing comparisons to the Amazon ...

Considered “the lungs of Africa,” this rainforest is the largest carbon sink in the world, absorbing more carbon than the Amazon. The famously diverse area is home to more than 600 types of ...

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 ...

"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...

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.

(Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human ...

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 ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is covered in rainforest and savannah ... the principal scientist for the South African organization Hankuzi Expeditions, spends his morning splashing around ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is covered in rainforest and savanna ... the principal scientist for the South African organization Hankuzi Expeditions, spends his morning splashing around ...