URUMQI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Scientists from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are working to help African countries transform the sandy regions into greener, arable land with more ...

By leveraging smart technologies, indigenous Chinese expertise and a dual commitment to sand control and economic growth, they aim to establish sustainable ecosystems in these regions that have long ...

Islands intensify human experience, symbolising both utopia and despairGorée Island revealed the dark legacy of slavery and reshaped the author’s wor ...

Photo: From left, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss laugh it up on the set of Jaws.

Insurgents are expanding from West Africa’s Sahel region toward Atlantic coastal nations such as Ivory Coast, creating new ...

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy ...

Morocco's 1-0 win over Zambia at the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday had the knock-on effect of sending Ivory Coast through to the last 16, after a day in which the tournament hosts sacked ...

Of all the natural splendors photographer Ike Edeani witnessed in Guyana—dinosaur-like reptiles, murderous-sounding monkeys, ...

South America’s earliest primates were small, fruit-eating species, hinting that their ancestors lived in humid forests along the western coast of Africa around 40.5 million years ago.

In 1901 the Jewish National Fund was established with the purpose of reclaiming the ancestral homeland of the Jews (Israel/Palestine). This was done by PURCHASING LAND from the Turkish rulers ...

As world leaders gear up for the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, one policy expert is making waves with an ancient marine organism he believes could help feed the planet, clean the air, and ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...