Kenya’s president said Wednesday he will not sign a finance bill that included tax hikes, bowing to pressure from protestors had stormed parliament, launched demonstrations across the country and... ...
In only nine years between 2010 and 2019, Africa has turned from being a net carbon sink, to being a net carbon source.
Through a multi-institutional partnership funded by the U.S. Department of State, a new research partnership seeks to reduce vulnerability to labor trafficking by enabling youth and young adults to achieve financial security and stability at home.
Droughts have the potential to increase the spread of HIV for women living in rural parts of Africa, researchers at the University of Bristol have found.
The Wildlife Conservation Society was honored to be invited to participate in a high-level event today hosted by His Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, the President of the Republic of Mozambique, at Maputo National Park.
Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but the pattern varies locally, according to a new study.
Researchers who have studied malaria for decades, hoping to find a cure, long thought they’d identified a type of blood that seemed to defend against the disease. But a new study published Dec. 5 in Cell Host & Microbe concludes that even some people with the protective blood type became infected. The question now is, “how?”
Madagascar’s Makira-Masoala wilderness will receive an annual $1 million grant through a new agreement between the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Legacy Landscapes Fund (LLF), with support from Arcadia.
Asian malaria mosquito found to spread drug and diagnosis-resistant malaria in Africa.
Scientist to collaborate with South African researcher to test glass powder for antibacterial properties.
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Changes in the law will ensure that companies can’t go on ignoring inequalities in earnings and wealth in South Africa.
Named after its habitat preference, Paroedura manongavato, from the Malagasy words “manonga” (to climb) and “vato” (rock), is a bouldering expert. Part of its “home range” is also very well-known to rock climbers for its massive granitic domes.
The USC Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) announced the 2023 recipient of the Ameri Prize for Innovation in Public Diplomacy.
One of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance systems is set to expand its capacity to protect wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.
Thousands of people are dead and at least 10,000 missing after devastating flooding in Libya. The Mediterranean storm brought heavy rains to the northeastern part of the country, already crumbling from more than a decade of conflict. “Although Storm Daniel caused the devastating flood, a combination of factors exacerbated the nation's vulnerability to natural hazards, resulting in enormous casualties,” says Virginia Tech geophysicist Manoochehr Shirzaei.
Among the negative impacts of extreme weather events around the world is one that most people may not think of: an increase in child marriages.
The attractiveness of new hydropower is decreasing fast, both due to the increasing economic competitiveness of solar panels and to the increasingly uncertain effects of climate change on river flows.
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