Scientists using chemical isotopes in ancient soil to measure prehistoric tree cover--in effect, shade--have found that grassy, tree-dotted savannas prevailed at most East African sites where ...

The human lineage originated about 2.5 million years ago, coinciding with the expansion of savannas — grasslands mixed with trees — across East Africa. As such, researchers have long ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Kenya stands as one of Earth’s last great natural paradises, a land where raw beauty and rich biodiversity come together in ...

Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous for their wildlife. For many travelers, seeing the region’s dazzling animals — lions ...

Throughout a three-year-long project along with his wife, ecologist Sylvia Krell-Westerwalbesloh, they looked deep into the ecology of dung beetles in West and East African savannas. Their latest ...

Savanna elephants are endangered and forest ... Poaching peaked in 2011 and since has eased in some places, notably in parts of East Africa. But it persists and is worsening in other regions ...