Plants and animals across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by 24 percent since preindustrial days. Large mammals like forest ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

Mr. Trump last week declared that he had ended the decades-old conflict between Congo and Rwanda when he gathered several ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...

A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency.

The report explains how the Middle East and North Africa is turning rapidly to desalination, driven by severe water scarcity, ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

President Trump bungled basic geography on Wednesday, confusing South Africa with South America during a rant about communism. The 79-year-old president said he sympathized with the citizens of Miami ...

When a child opens a world atlas, they deserve the truth—not illusion. For centuries, however, geography lessons have been built on distorted foundations. The Mercator projection, introduced in 1569 ...