New research warns that Africa's forests, once vital allies in the fight against climate change, have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source.

Ghanaian researcher and data analyst Richard Adjadeh led Afrobarometer’s presentation on perceived survey sponsorship at the ...

By Gonzalo Ortuño López Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role ...

Africa is the cradle of humankind. All humans are descendants from this common pool of ancestors. Africa and its multitude of ethnolinguistic groups are therefore fundamental to learning more about ...

In the 1980s, Irvin, a 12-year-old child in Soweto, in apartheid South Africa, drew a foreboding picture. Irvin sketched an angular, armored military vehicle: the Casspir, a ubiquitous sight in the ...

Researchers including those from Wits have identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to prostate cancer in a diverse group of African men. Although research and treatment are scant, this ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

As South Africa’s elephants swell from 500 to 3,000 in the Associated Private Nature Reserves, the debate rages over how to ...

Ghana remains one of the best-performing and most balanced electricity tariff jurisdictions in Africa, according to a new ...