Tag: africa

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.