The waters of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean are full of the remains of those who perished while trying to reach Europe.

This geologic feature has been mesmerizing astronauts since 1965.

I first traveled to Africa when I was five years old, and I’ve returned every year since. No matter how many times I go, I’m always filled with that same excitement and awe I had as a little boy. Now ...

The global energy transition is creating unprecedented demand for critical minerals such as cobalt, copper, and lithium.

Africa is home to around 70% of the world's burned area—the total area of land scorched by wildfires each year—making it the planet's biggest wildfire hotspot. Yet despite this, satellite observations ...

The war on Iran, launched in late February by the United States and Israel, is doing more than rattling oil markets. It is accelerating a determination among African countries to reduce their ...

In many ways, there has never been a better time to be born African. Since 1960, average life expectancy has risen by more than half, from 41 years to 64. The share of children dying before their ...

In the mid-1990s the UN built an airstrip in Ngara, in the far west of Tanzania, to supply refugee camps near the border with Burundi. Three decades later it has a different use. Over the past year ...

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained in museums and private collections in Europe and North America ever since. For the last few decades, ...

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South Africa’s first climate case at the Constitutional Court has blocked Shell’s oil and gas exploration off the Wild Coast, ...