“We were eating, drinking, breathing the oil.” Four farmers sue Royal Dutch Shell for oil spills in the notoriously polluted Niger Delta region, Nigeria.

Despite a range of threats, from droughts and cyclones to goats and militarization, Socotra's iconic trees are staging a slow, patient comeback.

Scientists are turning to a surprising ally in the battle against drug-resistant bacteria: A special type of virus found in our most polluted places.

Government forces and an ethnic Fulani militia killed at least 21 people, including 13 children, in Cameroon’s restive northwest region, survivors report.

Maasai communities in Tanzania say government is shutting down vital services to force them off their ancestral lands.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, community-led conservation has emerged from the chaos of war.

Imagine a cure that’s as contagious as the disease it fights. Several research groups are reviving research to develop self-spreading vaccines.