At the African Development Bank’s annual meeting, held in Busan, Korea, the bank’s president Akinwumi Adesina announced that, alongside the Green Climate Fund and the Africa 50 investment fund, it ...

In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent ...

The newborn nursery at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is getting crowded with the addition of six endangered African wild dog puppies. Zoo officials said the puppies were born April 24, just weeks ...

Travel back millions of years to explore the latest findings in human evolution at a free public lecture hosted by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Renowned paleoanthropologist and ...

A caboodle of canines is quite a sweet sight, no matter how big or fluffy or tail-waggy the pooches might be. But when there are 11 pups, and they're all pretty wee, as in just a month old, and ...

ABSTRACT Mineral aerosols from North Africa represent one of the largest sources of aerosols available to the atmosphere, and their generation and transport are thought to be modulated by African ...

Willem Jankowitz, his white beard trimmed into a goatee, peers at a small, purple flower through his bifocals. Everybody calls him “Doc.” His colleague, Peter Cunningham, is stretched out under their ...

Eleven endangered African wild dog pups were born at The Living Desert, the zoo’s first births of its 50th anniversary year. The puppies were born to Beatrix and Kiraka on Saturday afternoon and ...

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...

Everyone loves “Africa” by Toto, but one artist really took his fandom of the song to another level. Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf set up speakers and a solar-powered MP3 player in the Namib ...

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize, designed to elevate the work of contemporary African artists, has found its latest artist to thrust into the spotlight. Inspired by Moroccan architecture and ...