Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its ...

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Lake Turkana in Kenya, known as the cradle of humanity, has shrunk in recent millennia – and the loss of water has led to ...

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a ...

Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread the disease, putting 5 ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...

Professor Amelia Villaseñor and her team uncovered 2.75 million-year-old stone tools in Kenya, showcasing long-term cultural ...

A single site was occupied over more than 300 millennia, possibly representing where our ancestors honed their ...