Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents of searing lava, as the African volcano Nyiragongo did in January, 2002. But most deaths resulted from secondary causes in the wake of an ...

A Travel + Leisure A-List advisor dishes on how to go beyond wildlife spotting in East Africa. Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous ...

Scientists see it as a fascinating natural laboratory that will culminate in a north-south continental split - and ultimately ...

But one island country in Africa combines relaxing on the beach with the possibility of climbing a massive active volcano. That would be Cape Verde, which has become a popular destination for ...

The volcano's slopes and surrounding areas offer ... Cape Verdean cuisine is a delightful mix of African and Portuguese influences, with fresh seafood featuring prominently. The national dish ...

A series of earthquakes in Ethiopia’s Afar region has sparked concerns over potential volcanic eruptions, displacing ...

Some of the world's most spectacular but least-known volcanoes lie along the East African Rift, a wide crack in the Earth's crust that runs for more than 1,200 miles from Malawi through Tanzania ...

MORONI, Comoros (Reuters) -- Inhabitants of Grande Comore, the main island of the Comoros group, were warned at the weekend that their island's volcano could soon erupt. In messages read on state ...