Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Africa's Limpopo River, an S-shaped wonder, uniquely crosses the Tropic of Capricorn twice. This vital transboundary waterway ...

A new study suggests that the Zambezi River, Africa’s fourth-longest, is 11% longer than previously thought, with its most ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Through this work, the Angolan Highlands have been identified as a critical “water tower” for southern Africa, a source region providing freshwater to millions of people across several of the ...

In one of the largest African ancient-DNA studies to date, geneticists from Uppsala University, Sweden, and an archaeologist ...

International Rivers has released a new Public Participation Resource Manual and accompanying Curriculum designed to equip African communities affected by large hydropower and other large-scale ...

Africa’s great rivers have always carried more than water, holding histories, feeding nations, connecting cultures, and, today, more than ever, influencing political cooperation and climate strategy.

A group of scientists paddled the length of Zambia’s Kafue River to document ecological pressures, including invasive species, habitat changes and human encroachment. Australian red-clawed crayfish ...