The World Bank study shows that South African cities are unusually fragmented, with dense, poor neighborhoods located far ...

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Researchers have conducted the most comprehensive analysis to date linking plasma proteins to genetic variation in ...

You find what space you can in Burundi, where 14m people squeeze into an area not much bigger than Wales or Massachusetts.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations—the groups that have had the longest time to pick up novel mutations—live ...

Even though Vancouver is looking to pack more people within city limits, changes don’t happen overnight, said Vancouver City Councilor Sarah Fox, pictured here Oct. 20. “(Rezoning) a section of the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...

Africa’s official maps are stuck in the past, often either outdated, incomplete—or both. But governments don’t have the budgets to fix them, making it difficult to complete projects as complex as ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Congo Basin rainforest delivers water to the Ethiopian Highlands, supplying 80% of the Nile's flow Africa's population ...

There are only about 350 mature leopards left in West Africa, according to the latest regional assessment by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. Leopards (Panthera pardus) in West ...

Jean-Tristan Brandenburg receives funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under grant 01KA2220B to the RHISSA Programme for the NORA Consortium. Additionally, he is ...