Scientists long believed it would take more than a century for animals to return to deforested land. New research shows ...

Although rainforests cover only a small percentage of Earth's total surface area, they're home to half of the world's plant and animal species. As the name suggests, rainforests are also very wet: ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ago in ...

These discoveries reinforce a growing understanding that the Amazon was far from a ‘human desert’ before colonisation ...

The group hopes to improve the rare habitat by carrying out veteran tree care, glade creation and invasive-species control.

Modern humans evolved around 300,000 years ago, but only began inhabiting rainforests much later. In fact, the earliest archaeological evidence of humans living in rainforest habitats is only about 70 ...

From legendary predators to playful river mammals and dazzling birds, these animals have become symbols of the Amazon’s wild ...

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Present-Day Tropical Rain Forests -- Ch. 3. Geological Time Framework, Palaeoecological and Palaeoclimate Definitions -- Ch. 4. Geological Evidence for Rain Forests -- Ch ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...