Chameleons took to the waves to migrate from Africa to Madagascar about 65 million years ago, said a study published on Wednesday that seeks to resolve a roiling biological debate.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 26, 2013 3.3 / 5 (3) 1

African elephants face the worst crisis since global trade in ivory was banned almost a quarter-century ago, with the risk of extinction rising in worst-hit nations, conservationists said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

A transparent film that costs just one euro to make could bring an end to the anguish of mobile phone users facing the dreaded dead-battery message.

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Feb 26, 2013 5 / 5 (8) 0

Elephants are rare in African countries where poor schooling, a failing economy and widespread corruption are rife. Countries where these factors are well-organised have larger populations of elephants. It would appear that ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 12, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Online Map Tool is an interactive mapping application that can display more than 30 maps of soil and related environmental characteristics for the continent of Af ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

About 75 percent of Africa's savannahs and more than two-thirds of the lion population once estimated to live there have disappeared in the last 50 years, according to a study published this week in the journal Biodiversity an ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 04, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Botswana on Monday became the second African country to be featured on Google Maps' Street View, allowing users to explore landmarks such as the Okavango Delta.

Technology - Internet

Dec 03, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP)—In a film recently made in Nigeria, a man stops a beautiful woman, suavely trying to get her to talk to him. Instead she pouts her lips and looks down at her hands, barely able to hold all of the BlackBerry ...

Technology - Business

Sep 25, 2012 not rated yet 1

The science world has added an unusual tribute to the long list of accolades bestowed on Nelson Mandela, naming a prehistoric woodpecker after South Africa's first black president, who turns 94 Wednesday.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 17, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 0

The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk nearly 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by the University ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Jun 20, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0 |

A new assessment of available water resources, published today by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), reveals that large areas in Spain and Eastern Europe have on average less than 200 mm freshwater available ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

As they drove through the Okavengo Delta in Botswana, a team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists and three Northeastern physics students encountered a wild elephant attempting to protect ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 06, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Regional cooperation to improve the fight against creeping desertification of the African continent is at the centre of a conference that is to open here Thursday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 06, 2011 3 / 5 (1) 0

Malaria costs Africa $12 billion (eight million euros) a year in lost productivity, an expense that businesses can reduce by investing in prevention schemes, said a study released Thursday.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

May 05, 2011 not rated yet 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Leeds are predicting that within 10 million years Africa’s Horn will fall away and a new ocean will form.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 28, 2010 4 / 5 (17) 2