Naming all the creatures and plants in nature is no small task. Fortunate Phaka is a zoologist who has conducted the first comprehensive analysis of naming and classification of frogs and reptiles in ...

Western diets make up most of South Africa's food systems. This displaces indigenous crops and edible forest plants.

Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.

South Africa’s land is rising due to long-term drought. GPS and satellite data show the uplift is linked to drying ...

A new study of Colombia’s lowland forests and savannas finds that the nation may have extensive peatlands — organic wetland ...