Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, UNEP Deputy Executive Director, says AMCEN marks 40 years of African leadership in environmental action, uniting for policy, green growth, and a resilient, inclusive future.

African leaders are pushing to speed up implementation of a continent-wide deal to boost trade as growing concerns over U.S.

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

Africa, the world’s second largest continent, is going through a breakup. Scientists say it’s splitting into two land masses, with a new ocean one day running through the middle.

The map of Africa by treaty by Hertslet, Edward, Sir, 1824-1902; Brant, R. W. (Richard William), 1852-1934; Sherwood, H. L. (Harry Leslie), 1863-1946; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that fresh lava bursts from deep within the Earth’s mantle are actively ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...

Festus Adegbola, a UB PhD student who is using remote-sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology ...

Indeed, there are two gigantic blobs located beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean that occupy around six per cent of ... of material the waves are travelling through and, in so doing, map out the ...

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t arrive on the planet’s surface for a while, the end result is an ...