Our human species emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago but scientists don't yet have a clear picture of what kind of natural environment we evolved in. Until recently, the dominant idea was that ...

Africa’s great rainforests were long treated as a quiet ally in the climate fight, soaking up vast quantities of carbon dioxide and helping to steady a warming planet. New research now shows that ...

NIGRE, Côte d’Ivoire — The village of Nigré in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire sits — like much of this part of West Africa — in a landscape of rice and cassava fields, oil palm plantations and stands of ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in East African grasslands before spreading out and adapting to new environments. But a new study ...

NAIROBI, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Africa's tropical forests appear more resilient as carbon sinks than Amazonian rainforests - mopping up planet-warming carbon dioxide even when sizzling ...

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our understanding of human history. In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West ...

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

Paleo-environmental reconstructions show that the distribution of tropical African rain forests was affected by Quaternary climate changes. They suggest that the Dahomey Gap (DG)—the savanna corridor ...

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