Despite being often seen through the lens of food insecurity, Chris Elliott explores how Africa could soon become a global ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

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Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States’ global standing and reliability.

Researchers have extracted ancient proteins from australopithecine fossils and determined whether they were male or female — a first for human evolution studies.

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Morocco is increasingly a focus of European alliance-building and investment, including in illegally occupied Western Sahara.

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has ...