Africa is the most diverse continent on Earth — home to over a billion people, thousands of languages, and landscapes that ...

Stretching nearly 6,700 kilometers, the Nile River is the longest in the world — and the source of life for millions. This ...

Reviewed by Alan C. G. Best in International journal of African historical studies (Boston) 9 (4) 1976 pages 666-668 (DT1.A2592 AFA) Contents Introduction. The interest in Africa -- The physical ...

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

Last week Johnathan Bascom traveled 7,500 miles southeast and arrived back in East Africa.“Fewer and fewer geographers focus ...

The uplift of East Africa during the Miocene epoch dramatically transformed the region's climate and ecosystems, promoting ...

Georgetown University’s Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA) program hosted the Loewy Lecture in Technology and International Affairs on Jan. 25, featuring a presentation about the ...

NASA’s advanced remote sensing technology can analyze the chemical composition of stars and search for signs of life in the cosmos. It can also tell us a lot about our own planet, like the amount of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Festus Adegbola, a University at Buffalo PhD student who is using remote sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA ...