Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...

Laduma Ngxokolo, the designer behind MaXhosa Africa, is on a mission to embrace his country’s history and traditions, rather ...

On average, Africa’s tropical forests gained carbon until 2010, then lost it rapidly—especially between 2015 and 2017. Gains ...

Vineet Gahalaut, director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and former head of the National Centre for Seismology, said the update finally brings long-needed consistency to the Himalayan ...

ANC veteran Mathews Phosa says suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu should step aside from all ANC-aligned activities. Phosa believes Mchunu should also be fired from his role as minister of police.

Africa is rapidly becoming the new heartland of global jihad, as franchises of ISIS, Boko Haram, and Al Qaeda carve out strongholds across the continent, leaving thousands of people dead in their wake ...

It was just after dawn when the survivors finally crept back into the camp and found a sight of utter horror. Its streets were spattered with blood and strewn with body parts. Charred corpses lay ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

This Friday, 11 July, marks 15 years since one of the greatest achievements in Spanish football, the conquest of our World Cup winning star, the triumph in the 2010 ...

After three days of talks in Addis Ababa, African leaders have agreed on Wednesday to a common climate roadmap ahead of COP30 in Brazil. Their bold vision presents Africa as a “continent of solutions” ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...