For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is revealing unexpected ways to protect the planet. At sunset, humid air ...

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 ...

The Congo rainforest covers the very heart of Africa. From the crowded, competitive centre of the forest to the open edge of the Atlantic ocean, this is all about carving out space in a crowded world.

Humans originally began to spread out across Africa some 300,000 years ago, but it was long believed that they primarily stuck to savannas. This was because wet forest environments, with their ...

The trench initially excavated by Professor Guédé’s team was overgrown when researchers returned for the current study. (Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...