T he United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 26 new sites to the World Heritage List, including Germany's Palaces of Ludwig II of Bavaria, the largest and ...

Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

Humans lived in a rainforest environment on Sumatra in Indonesia as far back as 70,000 years ago. They also coped well with the challenges of rainforests.

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 ...

A version of this article appears in print on March 4, 2025, Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Early Humans Thrived In African Rainforests.

Find out why Kamba African Rainforest Experiences is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2024.

Humans lived in a rainforest environment on Sumatra in Indonesia as far back as 70,000 years ago. They also coped well with the challenges of rainforests.

Unraveling the mysteries of the world’s most critical rainforest For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers is ...

Humans were living in rainforests roughly 150,000 years ago, some 80,000 years earlier than was previously thought—and may have been an important center for early human evolution. This is the ...

How a unique wilderness in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being revived and preserved for future generations.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is covered in rainforest and savanna, but poachers and militia groups often roam freely in the country's wilderness areas as years of armed conflict and government ...

Humans lived in a rainforest environment on Sumatra in Indonesia as far back as 70,000 years ago. They also coped well with the challenges of rainforests.