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Madagascar’s protected forests cover 10% of the country’s land area.
Africa and Middle East

Tourist visits to Madagascar help conserve some forests, but others suffer: study suggests what to do

March 28, 2026

Ranaivo Rasolofoson, University of Toronto; Camille DeSisto, Rice University, and Tristan Frappier-Brinton, Duke University Madagascar is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The island country is well known for its diverse and endangered range of […]

Life-sized, naturalistic camel engraving documented at Jebel Misma, Saudi Arabia.
Africa and Middle East

Human Origins: Rock art guided travelers to water in prehistoric Saudi Arabia

October 8, 2025

Art is as old as human civilization. It predates the written word. And the world’s protected areas are home to some of the earliest surviving pieces of prehistoric art. Last year, scientists unveiled the world’s […]

Bone tools found in Olduvai, photographed in the Pleistocene Archaeology Lab of CSIC.
Africa and Middle East

1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Olduvai

March 5, 2025

The world’s oldest known bone tools have been unearthed at Olduvai Gorge, giving archaeologists and anthropologists deeper insight into the evolution of hominins and Homo sapiens. A study released today describes an assemblage of bone […]

Ngorongoro Conservation Area at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
Africa and Middle East

Human Origins: Climate adaptation linked to early human ancestor

January 24, 2025

The story of humanity’s emergence from Africa is ancient, yet relatively brief compared to the antiquity of Earth and all life found on it. Our planet is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Life is believed […]

Shanidar Cave and other locales in the Zagros Mountains were once home to the first genetically distinct Homo sapiens to venture out of Africa.
Africa and Middle East

Humanity’s “Out of Africa” moment encoded in our DNA

January 24, 2025

Spanning hundreds of miles across Iran’s west, with its northern edges extending into Iraqi Kurdistan, the Zagros Mountains are popular with explorers and provide sustenance for the many villages, farms, and pastoralists that call the […]

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