A new discovery at an archaeological site has led researchers to believe that humans lived in rainforests much earlier than ...

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

At a bare floored restaurant on the edge of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon, I asked the owner what there was to eat. She gestured to a poster on the wall. It was an illustrated guide of 44 ...

Some of Africa’s best-known protected areas are ... which together account for 80% of the world’s remaining tropical forests and two-thirds of all terrestrial biodiversity, according to ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

How will tropical forests change in response to the climate in the coming decades? A new global map reveals the functional ...

ESA/M.PedoussautThis space probe will soon be sent into orbit to help scientists uncover the health of our world’s densest ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...