Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity – a ...

For centuries, poets, scholars and theologians have flocked to Chinguetti, a trans-Saharan trading post home to more than a ...

Cities in the Northeast experienced record-breaking drought conditions in the second half of 2024 after a hot, dry summer in many areas. Wildfires broke out in several states that rarely see them.

The crucial discovery illustrates a potentially game-changing solution to slash the cost of fixing Africa’s most excruciating problem: the lack of clean water. Water scarcity is an insidious ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper ... separate from the rest of the continent as water emerges, effectively reshaping the world map. It's one of the few spots on Earth where tectonic activity ...

Kenya is undertaking several major water projects as the country looks to secure a stable, safe and consistent supply to homes as well as the agriculture sector. On Thursday (23 January) a ...

Two extratropical cyclones, the cause of most winter storms, churned near each other off the coast of South Africa in 2009 ... other factors related to climate change — such as water scarcity or ...