Protected areas are crucial for wildlife conservation, but many are under unprecedented pressure associated with exponential ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going first into ...

Climate change poses a substantial hazard to both regional and global habitats and populations. It is distinguished by rising temperatures, changed weather patterns, and increased frequency of extreme ...

It documents how human hunter-gatherers in Africa began about 70,000 years ago to embrace a greater diversity of habitats such as thick forests and arid deserts, acquiring an adaptability useful ...

An African forest elephant -- nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings -- was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years.

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This marks a rare sighting of what officials are calling a "Ghost Elephant." ...

Nature isn't confined to officially protected areas. A lot can be done to conserve biodiversity in other places too. The ...

Looking at an array of archeological sites in Africa, the study detailed how human populations expanded their range into the forests of Central and West Africa and the deserts of North Africa in ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

Seaweed Greens has discovered how to remove pollutants from sargassum to make organic fertilizer and other environmentally ...

From Baluran's savannahs to Gunung Leuser's rainforests, these national parks in Indonesia offer some of the most biodiverse ...