In a bid to protect power generation at the Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Plant, floating booms will soon be deployed on the Akagera River to halt the advance of invasive water hyacinth.

The chevrotain is a strange mashup with a rodent’s pointy snout, tiny pig-like hooves, and fangs like a saber-toothed tiger.

Five decades after Zimbabwe defied international regulations by continuing to use the pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), alarming signs of ...

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are ...

The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará ...

With the intensification of climate change, the southern part of Africa is not only becoming warmer and drier—it's ...

Google Earth photo captured a hill formation in Sudan that bears a striking resemblance to human lips. Not much is known ...

When land loses water, it starts to lift up, like a foam ball expanding back to shape after being squeezed. Normally, ...