China is stepping in to support Africa’s Great Green Wall, a massive 7,700km project aimed at combating desertification in the Sahara. Launched by the African Union in 2007, the initiative has ...

The closest Ms. Ozick may come to a career retrospective is “In a Yellow Wood,” a heaping selection of short stories and essays that seems likely to burnish her legacy while continuing to ...

What happens when you’re eager to escape conformity but don’t know what you want instead? That dilemma confronted a Newport Beach, Calif., couple who raised their children in a conventional ...

R W Johnson is without peer as a historian of modern South Africa. In 1977, he published How Long Will South Africa Survive?, a model of realpolitik at the time of the Cold War, offering no facile ...

Mardis Gras isn’t until Tuesday. For the DeCarbo family, though, a celebration in New Orleans unfolded last week.

Wood formation (radial growth), was found to be highly seasonal, with cambial dormancy occurring during the dry season and growth starting at the beginning of the rainy season. Individual ring-width ...