The African rainforest is also a place where you’ll find myriad different reptiles of all sizes. One of the smallest of the bunch is the pygmy chameleon.

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution.. This is the ...

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 ...

If that were true, then early humans should have also been present in West and Central Africa, where rainforests were common. The oldest firm evidence of humans in African rainforests dated back ...

Modern humans evolved from our hominin ancestors in Africa some 300,000 years ago, according to the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, which were found in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. Others discovered ...

Described as being one of the world's "two lungs", the African forests are shrinking at a rate of 8,000 sq km per year, plagued by illegal logging, excessive poaching and ecological damage. The talks ...

Find out why Kamba African Rainforest Experiences is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2024.

A rainforest in Africa tries to reverse the damage form years of conflict and neglect How a unique wilderness in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being revived and preserved for future generations.

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest. For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

Smoke from fires in Africa fertilizes the Amazon over 6,500 miles away. By Mike Wehner. ... It’s estimated that the Amazon rainforest alone absorbs as much as 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide ...

A rainforest in Africa aims to reverse damage after years of conflict and neglect A unique wilderness in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being revived and preserved for future generations.