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

Over the course of 2025, we have seen major shifts in global foreign aid policies that have sent ripples across Africa, where ...

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...

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 ...

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

While local ownership is growing, Black entrepreneurs remain rare in the billion-dollar safari industry. These trailblazers ...

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 ...

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 ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand years ago ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand 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 ...