The first discovery of tracks of early hominins in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region happened by chance in 1978. A team led by one of us (Behrensmeyer) and paleoecologist Léo Laporte was exploring the ...

Malaria continues to be a major public health concern in Kenya, despite decades of concerted efforts to control and eliminate the disease. According to researchers, malaria persists due to the complex ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

One study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammal fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and the other study is of enamel proteins from extinct mammals in the Haughton impact crater site located ...

The Kenya Meteorological Department has listed Nairobi among the regions set to experience cold weather for the next five ...

The Afar region is a rare place on Earth where three tectonic rifts meet - the Main Ethiopian Rift, the Red Sea Rift, and the ...

As the sun set over Lake Turkana, a mother sobbed and threw flowers into the greenish-blue water to remember her teenage daughter who had drowned trying to reach Kenya via a new route being used ...

The Lake Turkana Institute, which Richard Leakey founded, allowed researchers to process their artifacts immediately. At the talk, Louise Leakey said much of her childhood was spent at the Turkana ...

Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake and a UNESCO World Heritage site, offers hope. It produced 17,300 metric tonnes of fish in recent years, and could produce considerably more, ...

The "Sustainably Unlocking the Economic Potential of Lake Turkana" project is a joint initiative by the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNESCO, funded by the Dutch Government, aimed at promoting ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19 – Max Schiff has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP). Schiff will oversee management responsibility for Kenya and Africa’s ...