Africa: Historic Ruling Finds Climate Change 'Imperils All Forms of Life' and Puts Laggard Nations On Notice

Climate change "imperils all forms of life" and countries must tackle the problem or face consequences under international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has found. Read more »

Africa: AI Chatbots Can Boost Public Health in Africa - Why Language Inclusion Matters

Language technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) hold significant potential for public health. From outbreak detection systems that scan global news in real time,… Read more »

Africa: African Media Are Threatened By Governments and Big Tech - Book Tracks the Latest Trends

Media capture happens when media outlets lose their independence and fall under the influence of political or financial interests. This often leads to news content that favours… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Minerals Are Being Bartered for Security - Why It's a Bad Idea

A US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda binds the two African nations to a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its… Read more »

Africa: Only 3 Years Left - New Study Warns the World Is Running Out of Time to Avoid the Worst Impacts of Climate Change

Bad climate news is everywhere. Africa is being hit particularly hard by climate change and extreme weather, impacting lives and livelihoods. Read more »

Africa: Is It Okay to Boil Water More Than Once, or Should You Empty the Kettle Every Time?

The kettle is a household staple practically everywhere - how else would we make our hot drinks? Read more »

Africa: From Tea Towels to TV Remotes - Eight Everyday Bacterial Hotspots - and How to Clean Them

From your phone to your sponge, your toothbrush to your trolley handle, invisible armies of bacteria are lurking on the everyday objects you touch the most. Most of these microbes… Read more »

Africa: Donor-Egg Pregnancies May Come With Higher Rates of Serious Complications - Here's What You Need to Know

More women than ever are carrying babies conceived with someone else's egg - but few are told that this might carry greater health risks. Read more »

Africa: Wafcon - 3 Signs That African Women's Football Is Finally Starting to Thrive

Women's football in Africa has been through radical changes over the past few years. From small beginnings in the late 1990s, it has grown to the point that its biggest competition… Read more »

Africa: Green Energy and Protecting Nature Get the Thumbs Up in Climate Change Study in 68 Countries

Africa has begun experiencing frequent extreme weather events. Extreme weather is defined as the kind of heatwaves, droughts, storms and floods that have historically been rare… Read more »

Africa: Whose Turn Is It? the Question Is At the Heart of Language and Chimpanzees Ask It Too

When we think about what sets humans apart from other animals, language often comes to mind. Language is more than words - it also relies on the ability to build shared… Read more »

Africa: Africans Survived 10,000 Years of Climate Changes By Adapting Food Systems - Study Offers Lessons for Modern Times

Imagine living in a place where a single drought, hurricane, or mudslide can wipe out your food supply. Across Africa, many communities do exactly that - navigate climate shocks… Read more »

Africa: Many Fish Are Social, but Pesticides Are Pushing Them Apart

Scientists have detected pesticides in rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide. So what are these pesticides doing to the fish? Read more »

Africa: Guineafowl Can Outsmart Extreme Temperatures - We Spent a Year Finding Out How

Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings? Our new study has taken a close look at one of Africa's most familiar birds - the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Freshwater Ecosystems Depend On Little Creatures Like Insects and Snails - Study Maps Overlooked Species

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally recognised for its astounding biodiversity. Read more »

Africa: Do Women Have to Pee More Often? the Answer Is Surprisingly Complex

"Are we stopping again already?" It's a familiar complaint on family road trips and one that's often aimed at women. From sitcoms to stand-up routines, the idea that women have… Read more »

Africa: We Don't Need Deep-Sea Mining, or Its Environmental Harms. Here's Why

Deep-sea mining promises critical minerals for the energy transition without the problems of mining on land. It also promises to bring wealth to developing nations. But the… Read more »

Africa: Berg Winds in South Africa - the Winter Weather Pattern That Increases Wildfire Risks

Winter in some parts of South Africa is a time of low (or no) rainfall and high fire danger. Sheldon Strydom studies the relationship between weather and fire, in particular how… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Plants - a Database Project Has Recorded 65,000 Species - and Is Still Growing

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever… Read more »

Africa: New Clues From 2 Million-Year-Old Tooth Enamel Tell Us More About an Ancient Relative of Humans

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and… Read more »

Africa: Can You Trust Climate Information? How and Why Powerful Players Are Misleading the Public

Ten years ago, the world committed itself to keeping global warming well below 2°C (and preferably below 1.5°C) above the pre-industrial era. This would be done by reducing… Read more »

Africa: Food Trade Regimes Harm People and the Planet - How the G20 Can Drive Improvements

African food systems face daunting challenges in the face of climate change. They must ensure fair access to food for residents of Africa's growing cities and create decent jobs… Read more »

Africa: War, Politics and Religion Shape Wildlife Evolution in Cities

People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution is not separate from human beings. In fact, human cultural… Read more »

Africa: Most Plant-Friendly Fungi Are a Mystery to Scientists

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal… Read more »

West Africa: West Africa Terror - Why Attacks On Military Bases Are Rising - and Four Ways to Respond

More than 40 Malian soldiers were killed and one of the country's military bases was taken over in early June 2025 in a major attack by an al-Qaeda linked group, Jama'a Nusrat… Read more »