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 ...

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 ...

Deep within the rainforest rivers of western Central Africa lives a frog that seems to ignore many of the usual rules of amphibian life. The Goliath frog, already famous for its remarkable size, ...

The Republic of the Congo became an independent nation on August 15th, 1960. Measuring in at more than two million square kilometers, Central Africa’s Congolian rainforests play host to a truly ...

In the midst of the African rainforest, one elusive animal wreaks havoc on vegetation – and in doing so, offers a big favour for the climate. As it trudges through the dense rainforests of West and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...