Tag: africa

This may have driven the evolution of upright apes

The pandemic has messed up many things including the academic and social growth of school children.

We take it for granted, but for hundreds of millions of people, water is a scarce treasure.

Fewer people are using fires to manage land, which means less pollution.

Millions rely on tropical forests in Africa, such as the Guinean Forests. Thanks to satellites, they can be easier protected.

UN says more funding is required to help the most-affected countries and avoid widespread famine.

Africa is exhibiting remarkable resilience through the pandemic.

Many African countries have no intensive care beds to speak of, besides many other shortages.

The transatlantic slave trade was at its height between 1750 and 1850. Now, a new study analyzing the genomes of ...

Extreme weather has fueled a plague of millions of desert locust

Researchers show how cultural changes in Africa over the past 10,000 years can be tracked using the size of eggshell ...

Roughly 14% of respondents said they had to bribe to obtain care at least once in the past year.

Ashes to bananas.

It's a surprisingly rich history.

Finally a 'wall' we can all support.

Take a bite out of this story.

Improvise, adapt, eliminate.

There are not many people I dislike as intensely as ivory poachers.

There's some good news, but also a lot of bad news.

Scientists find massive cemetery complex in the plains of Kenya.

A tiny fingerbone is re-writing the story of human dispersal out of Africa.

This isn't the last piece of the puzzle -- in fact, it's the very first.

Even when you'd think he couldn't possibly stoop any lower, there he is, defying all odds.

Not bad for such a small thing.

Worldwide, more and more people are starting to move from rural areas to urban areas. But nowhere is this as ...

Africa's elephants might become endangered soon because of widespread poaching.

We just bought some more time.

Sad news comes from African wildlife parks again: three rangers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's Garamba wildlife park. Two ...

One study estimates that over the next 35 years, nine African countries would have to spend $98 billion to $261 ...

The complete genetic code book of a person who lived 4,500 years ago in Ethiopia was completed by US researchers. ...

“Having seen the devastating effects of Ebola on communities and even whole countries with my own eyes, I am very ...

After placing no less than 225 camera traps, a group of researchers has collected a massive database of 1.2 million ...

Archaic homo sapiens left Africa, the wellspring of humanity, some 60,000 years ago migrating North, via a route passing through ...

Most of the time, the so-called civilized world would just rather turn a blind eye towards what is happening in ...

Over the past few years there has been much talk about the importance of scientific development in Africa. With the ...

Liberian health workers wear protective gear on the way to bury a woman who died of the Ebola virus on ...

Photo: conservationafrica.net In some parts of the world you can find fences that stretch for hundreds of miles, delimiting protected ...

Millions of years ago, the wild savannas of Africa were teeming with carnivore wildlife, much more diverse than what we ...

Workers explore South Africa's Border Cave. A study shows modern culture may have emerged in the area much earlier than ...

Africa proves yet again that it's the cradle of the hominid family, and in consequence the human species. Scientists have ...

The leading theory that explains why zebras are striped (remember the age old riddle? black stripes on white or white ...

Casey Holliday, a University of Missouri researcher, was looking through some of the hundreds of unlabeled items kept in a ...

Nairobi, Kenya is home to one of the world's biggest slums, more than one million people living in subhuman conditions ...