During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

Two tropical waves moved off the coast of Africa this week as we approach the Memorial Day weekend and the start of hurricane ...

Spanning from the early 1800s to the present day, Africa has travelled the tumultuous journey from colonisation to independence, and now, to continental integration. This transformation is more than ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

The competitive advantage now lies in acting early, forging the right partnerships, and leveraging intelligence to predict where the next bottlenecks — or breakthroughs — will be. A Geopolitical ...

If steps are taken early, Africa can harness its population growth as a strength ... In contrast to sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa is already well into its demographic transition (see map below). It ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

A study published in early March in ... months in sub-Saharan Africa and 95.1 million children in South Asia were affected by anemia. Based on a 20-kilometer grid, the maps produced in the study ...