Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language ...

One of the leaders was Geoffrey West, who sports a neatly trimmed gray beard and retains a trace of the accent of ... Two of these are those you see on the map. He describes the half-dimension ...

The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), an ambitious cultural institution redefining the role of museums in Africa, is calling on Nigerian investors to take greater ownership in its growth ...

MANILA, Philippines — Social media had been abuzz since Monday as netizens noticed that “West Philippine Sea” (WPS) was appearing prominently on Google Maps to mark the stretch of water west of the ...

A Google Maps scan on Monday of the body of water directly west of the Philippines now shows a name once invisible to most users -- the West Philippine Sea. The Philippine government's preferred ...

The World Bank’s report reveals that most West African power utilities are financially unsustainable due to poor governance and lack of digital tools. It offers actionable reforms to improve ...

Sparsely populated areas in the Jordan Valley have come under increasing pressure from settlers who have begun grazing large ...

Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an ...