The first roads that cut through rainforests are well-known conduits for deforestation. However, new research finds that secondary roads, those that branch off the primary road, cause far more forest ...

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

What began as a bold experiment in forest restoration has blossomed into one of the world’s most remarkable environmental ...

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 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 ...

Tropical rainforests play a vital role in global climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. However, a major new study published in Science reveals that forests across the Americas are not ...

The earliest human rainforest presence in the world had ... large implements suited for cutting fibrous plants and other tropical forest resources. In 2020, archaeologist and geochronologist ...

The Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest – spanning 6.9 million ... Making up half of the planet’s remaining tropical forests, the forest is also one of the most biologically diverse ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a tourist from Wisconsin they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory's east.