Today, the United States’ first gay travel company offers trips to Antarctica, New Zealand, the Galapagos Islands and Paris, among many other beloved and far-flung places. But it began 52 years ago ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of our species.

For years, critics of South Africa’s captive lion industry have insisted the animals are inbred. New research indicates things are more complicated—though the animals studied aren't inbred ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

Dr. Makhubela, a pioneering South African geologist and senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg, is one of only 15 recipients to receive the 2025 National Geographic Society Wayfinder ...

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IF YOU GO Many operators in Europe and Africa can set up guided tours of Algeria’s top sights, including ancient villages in the Sahara and Roman ruins.

South Africa’s National Energy Regulator, NERSA, registered 160 new generation facilities in the final quarter of the 2024/25 financial year, adding over 2,100 megawatts to the pipeline and ...

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa was under a declared state of national disaster on Thursday as the death toll from floods caused by severe rains in the Eastern Cape region rose to 92. The Eastern ...

1954 Full Color Astronomer E.C. Slipher took this image from South Africa; he published his Photographic Story of Mars (1905- 1961) in 1962.