New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

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Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium will offer extended spring break hours later this month, along with new exhibits, interactive ...

Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research ...

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will welcome tree canopy ecologist Nalini Nadkarni for Nat Geo Live: From Roots to ...

As a physician who has cared for many patients with this deadly disease in Africa, I marveled at how this one tree has saved ...

The findings push back the timing of ancient human rainforest occupation "by more than double," said archaeologist Eslem Ben ...

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...

Even though key issues related to funding were finally resolved in the extended meeting in Rome, the COP16 talks in Colombia, ...

A new study challenges the notion that anatomically modern humans began inhabiting rainforest habitats just 70,000 years ago.

This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

Many travelers focus on the well-known Amazon River and popular eco-lodges, overlooking the hidden gems deep within the ...