3 June 2023
People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, are increasingly exposed to extreme heat due to climate change and the urban heat island effect, but covering homes in a reflective film significantly cut indoor temperatures
30 November 2022
A life-changing visit to a research project in Uganda on banded mongooses has shown me how international collaboration, and travel, is vital for conservation where biodiversity still exists, says Graham Lawton
11 January 2022
The characters used to write the Vai script, which was invented in Liberia in 1833, have become visually simpler over time, reflecting the evolutionary pressures acting on writing
1 September 2021
A single Arabian archaeological site has been occupied by ancient humans on five separate occasions over the past 400,000 years, each enabled by a period of wet climate
7 September 2020
The Great Green Wall plan for an 8000-kilometre-long band of trees across Africa to hold back encroaching deserts and provide people with livelihoods has been embraced by 11 countries since its launch 13 years ago. Has it worked so far?
18 May 2020
By testing bats in Gabon, researchers found seven coronaviruses that are new to science, but we don’t yet know if they could jump to people and cause illness
27 January 2020
The teeth of a man who lived in prehistoric Africa are worn in a way that suggests he had three facial piercings, the second oldest such find in the world
12 December 2019
Julia Wrathall reveals the fascinating science of an unsung creature. You’ll never see Flopsy bunny in the same light again
3 July 2019
Vulnerable African lions have started climbing trees to escape buffaloes in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Their numbers are in decline from habitat loss, lack of prey and hunting by humans
27 March 2019
Cyclone Idai has devastated parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi with winds reaching 170 kilometres per hour
