South Africa’s surface is rising. Slowly, almost invisibly, some areas are lifting by as much as two millimeters each year.

With its breathtaking scenery, diverse landscapes and inviting weather, South Africa promises unforgettable cycling ...

But those hard-bitten cynics resident in South Africa ... stolen land? Fortunately, none of these niceties have been explored in any great detail by those political leaders promising to hand out the ...

Newly released maps trace the epic journey of millions of antelope across East Africa and the pressures that endanger it ...

A new people-smuggling route opens up crossing a lake into Kenya, but it is proving deadly for some Eritreans.

Women have had the right to choose to end their pregnancies for 30 years in SA — and government facilities that offer the service do it for free. Here’s what is (still) driving so many of them to ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a ...

Instead of heat surging up from the Earth’s guts, what’s really lifting the land is what’s missing above it: water. As ...

If you see a large, intimidating gray and yellow lizard, it’s probably a Nile monitor. They eat anything from bugs to iguanas ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest cosmic neighbors. Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel ...