The image underscores the depth of indigenous knowledge exemplified by San people.
What outsiders might view as wasted time (betting on sports) is actually being used productively to prepare for the future.
The drought is driven by El Niño, an unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean that shifts weather patterns.
In a sense, a malaria-transmitting mosquito is a sick mosquito. This is where bacteria can help.
Climate and weather play a large role in people’s leisure travel decisions.
Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
New research provides the foundation for larger, regional-scale analyses of early human adaptive strategies in the Namib Sand Sea, Namibia.
The changes that were mapped represent the shift from a lake to the contemporary shallow wetland at the site.
While teachers were employing the right strategies, they were not giving targeted attention to the non-readers in their classes.
The southern African wildlife economy is socially and environmentally unsustainable.
New insect treasures are almost certainly just waiting to be found by future palaeonentomologists.
Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
A school tour often sits within the itinerary of a tour of southern Africa, or alongside wildlife tourism ventures.
Learning about snakes offers unique insights into the natural world.
His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Pollen can become preserved in sediment deposits over thousands, or even millions, of years.
To the ǀXam and San people, being in the world as a person includes “the sky’s things” - an understanding of and deep connection with the cosmos.
Fossilised tracks of a group of plant-eating dinosaurs have been found in Lesotho’s Roma Valley for the first time.
Some explorers believed they had found unicorns depicted on rocks. The truth behind the paintings is far more interesting.
The kind of coverage favoured by South African media probably doesn’t do much to improve the public’s understanding of climate change.