You have full access to this article via your institution. Demand for biofuels and other cash crops, such as tea and coffee, may usher in a new export-driven mode of deforestation in Africa's future.

Deforestation of the Amazon leads to worsening droughts and floods. Experts emphasise that the role of the rainforest changes ...

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that humans ...

Congo-Brazzaville and Madagascar are combining efforts to protect their primary forests, which support rich ecosystems and ...

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

Cocoa farming in West Africa is endangering Goliath beetles, which are crucial to their ecosystem. Deforestation for cocoa ...

Explore the significance of Africa's Miombo Forest, a vast, biodiverse region critical to the planet's ecological health.

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

It’s a vast island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa ... to chop the forest so they can live. What do you think? The teenagers consider some of the causes of deforestation ...