These were the first steps of “The Herds,” a moving theater performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from ...

The chimpanzee approaches the camera and appears to recognize that it is different from her environment, video footage shows. She picks up a long stick, uses it to probe the camera and then appears to ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

Forest reserves, crucial for Ghana’s water security, are at the centre of a political and ecological storm as President John ...

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to ...

One of the great mysteries of the monkeypox virus has been pinpointing its ‘reservoir’ hosts — the animals that carry and ...

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa. In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a ...

Burundi has initiated several projects to protect and restore its forests. Among the most significant is the national reforestation project launched in 2018, which aims to regenerate the country’s ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...