Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

Very few meteorites from this planet ever reach Earth and none have been scientifically proven. A study investigated two ...

Sweeping deserts, tank battles, and legendary generals - The North African Campaign was one of WWII’s most dramatic and ...

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

COLUMN: Piri Reis, an Ottoman admiral and cartographer, is renowned for his world map created in 1513, which includes detailed representations of parts of Northern Africa.

West Africa features humid equatorial rainforests along the coast, transitioning into semi-arid steppe lands inland. The northernmost parts, bordering the Sahara Desert, experience frequent droughts.

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

An incredible map shows the most widely spoken languages in each country in Africa. There are believed to be between 1,000 and 2,000 distinct languages across the continent, which have roots in ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can ...

It is also a worrying sign that M23 ’s patron, Rwanda, may be willing to use its strength to redraw the map of the region—and, in doing so, risk another catastrophic African war.

Researchers mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across most of the African continent. Matching values from the map against those observed in artifacts and plant, animal, and human ...

Bir Tawil is a 2,060-square-kilometer stretch of desert in Africa that no country claims. Between Egypt and Sudan, this barren expanse lacks governance, recognition and any real owner. Article ...