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

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

"We looked at almost half of all Australia's subtropical rainforest tree species and saw many different strategies that were ...

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

Study published in Nature pushes back the known evidence of human habitation in rainforests by over 80,000 years.

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

Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of medicine.

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence ...

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our ...

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

Plant Power: A New Method to Model How Plants Move Water Globally Feb. 5, 2025 — Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...