The tools, found in an area where an ancient rainforest once stood, push back the oldest known evidence of humans in similar ...

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 ...

The Congo rainforest in Africa is one of the world’s largest rainforests. Like other tropical rainforests such as the Amazon, it is located close to the Equator, where the sun’s energy is more ...

the Dzanga-Sangha protected zone in the Central African Republic, and Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. The Congo Basin forms part of a global trio of tropical rainforests ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

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 ...

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 ...