Here’s a look at Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in 1976. Facts Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a disease caused by one of five different Ebola viruses. Four of ...

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

A more inclusive framework for protecting the iconic rhino responds to changing political, social, and demographic conditions ...

Across Kenya, grasslands underpin people's lives—as well as those of animals like elephants, giraffes, and hyenas. But the ...

Universities in Senegal and South Africa are now teaching the skills of setting up nature-inspired projects to deal with some ...

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With Africa’s significant share of the world’s arable land and rich biodiversity, the foundation for a bioeconomy is strong. Unlocking its full potential can fuel economic growth.

This study reveals that traditional biomass assessments in the Miombo ecoregion of Sub-Saharan Africa often overlook the ...

Working on her PhD research in the laboratory of Distinguished Professor Patricia Wright, Aghomo went north in Ranomafana ...

Tropical forests lose species due to humans, even inside protected areas. Scientists found that forests near people have ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

The scorched earth in Biriya Forest reflects just one of many environmental effects of nearly a year and a half of war for ...