In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered, can travel vast distances for water, food or mates. Some landscapes they inhabit have extensive plains. Others, like the ...

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...

Beyond four decades of memories and a new route up, Skip Horner left another legacy on Kilimanjaro: 20 pairs of boots for ...

The map displays the modeled streams – Wadi ad Dawasir, Wadi al Batin, and Wadi Sahba – and the dominant moisture-bringing ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent ‘green’ periods in the past, as a result ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

A Newsweek-created graphic shows the various travel advisories currently in place across Africa, including the no-go zones.

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...