Mozambique has won World Bank backing for a $6 billion hydroelectric plant, southern Africa’s biggest such project in 50 ...

The common hippopotamus can spend up to 16 hours a day immersed in rivers and lakes. Lumbering out of the water at night, these herbivores graze on tropical grasses and consume 80 to 100 pounds in ...

Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday.

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Some 100,000 years ago, three large rivers snaked through what is today the bone-dry Sahara Desert, new research suggests. The rivers, now buried, would have created pockets of green areas and ...

Global fast fashion brands are helping drive pollution that has dyed African rivers blue or turned their waters as alkaline as bleach, according to a report published on Tuesday.