USAID has been critical in providing humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon and ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

A new international study highlights the severity of climate change impacts across African mountains, how farmers are adapting, and the barriers they face—findings relevant to people living in ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

However, the core of Hounsou’s work centers around reconnecting Black people to their African roots. He approaches that work through Africa Reconnect, a series of music and cultural events ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut ... a “horrific” crackdown on desperate people trying to eke out a living.

(CNN) — Having grown up in the west African country of Benin, when two-time Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou immigrated to the US in 1990 to pursue his acting dreams, he felt a pain he ...

Kristine Crous received funding from The Australian Research Council to investigate how Australian rainforests will cope with climate warming (DE160101484). She is currently funded by the Hermon ...

Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. And these close cousins of our species, according to new research ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest - a place where ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...