The strategic logic of the United States’ new National Security Strategy puts Africa’s mineral wealth and global connectivity front and center. However, US diplomacy must adapt to fully take advantage ...

Plants and animals across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by 24 percent since preindustrial days. Large mammals like forest ...

A demographic transformation in Africa has the potential to alter the world order Last November, the global population reached a significant milestone of 8 billion. More recently, in April, India ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...

The report explains how the Middle East and North Africa is turning rapidly to desalination, driven by severe water scarcity, ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

It’s a cool morning in the montane rainforest of western Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park. Sunbeams stream down from the canopy, glowing in the mist. Birdsong pierces the still air. Jacques Habimana, a ...

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...