Without strong environmental protections ... (Can a new way to measure tropical rainforest vulnerability help save them?) A version of this story appears in the April 2025 issue of National ...

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years ...

New evidence from West Africa is reshaping our understanding of early human migration and adaptation, challenging long-held assumptions about the environments our ancestors inhabited. A recent study ...

On March 19, 2023, an inspiring initiative took place in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, bridging the worlds of sports and environmental consciousness. This event marked the beginning of the ...

As more rainforest is destroyed ... a geographer with the Amazon Environmental Research Institute who was not involved in the work. “Brazil has the biggest chunk of tropical forest in the ...

heaping further pressure on the environmental policy of Bolsonaro who favors developing the Amazon region economically. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is considered ...

However, what was noticeable by its absence from the agenda, despite support from Gabon and the Congo, was the inclusion of financing for protecting tropical rainforests. With the new IPCC report last ...