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Environment

New DNA Extraction Techniques Are Helping Enhance Our Understanding of Elephants’ Biological History

Recent advances in laboratory methods are enabling scientists to recover very old or degraded DNA sequences from warmer places, where DNA degrades at a much faster rate.

A family of elephants walk through Kruger National Park.

Education

Fighting Poachers With Education, Not Guns

The iconic Kruger National Park is an easy target for the poaching of large animals, especially rhinos and elephants. Those fighting the slaughter say that community education and poverty alleviation yield the best results.

Justin Catanoso

A female black rhino. Poaching and habitat loss caused the species' population to plummet in the 1970s and '80s, and it remains critically endangered.

Environment

Asia and Africa Can Learn From Each Other When It Comes to Rhino Conservation

Nepal's successful anti-poaching measures are a model for other countries, while African rhino-range countries excel at marketing wildlife tourism.

Newly displaced Somali women and children walk to a food distribution center at the Kaxda district on the outskirts of Mogadishu on April 9th, 2017.

Environment

‘A Matter of Survival’: Talking Existential Climate Threats in Bonn

Earth's most vulnerable nations remind the developed world that climate action is a question of life or death.

Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Economics

For African Nations, China’s One Belt, One Road Means More of the Same

Beijing's latest infrastructure bid is just a repackaging of traditional foreign policy.

A scene from a performance organized by Jalada—a pan-African writers' collective—in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Ongoing Revolution to Unite African Literature

The Jalada literary collective has a radical mission: an ongoing translation effort to unite— and elevate—African literature.

News in Brief

A Step Forward: Inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Burgeoning Dance Culture

Years ago, dancers were considered “deviant” in the DRC. A growing number of students are moving — and grooving — to change that.

News in Brief

Viewfinder: Dancing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Pacific Standard Staff

Lesotho mountain village.

Letter From Lesotho: Racism in the Diamond Mine

Desperate for work, the Basotho miners of the sovereign kingdom of Lesotho grudgingly accept the daily degradations of life among the white men.

The Bones of St. Helena

Two cinematographers are capturing the secret history of a South Atlantic island full of the bones of Liberated Africans.