The World: Science, Tech & Environment

These days, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region are known for being conflict zones. But 60,000 years ago, they were pathways out of Africa for our oldest ancestors. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been following the migration routes of early humans from their origins in Africa, across the globe, to the southern tip of South America since 2013.He began in Ethiopia and then continued his journey through Djibouti, a small East African country that borders Eritrea, Ethiopia and

When dispatch rider Efo Pascal recently returned to Accra on his motorbike from one of his delivery rounds, he came back with a dusty black sweater and helmet. “Since the whole of last week and this week, the dust is too much, and it is really bad. This is my first delivery today yet, see how dirty I look,” he said.Ghana is in the grip of this year's harmattan season — characterized by dry, dusty winds between the end of November through March — as winds from the Sahara desert reach West

Murat Aktuğralı meets with other grieving parents — to discuss their legal case — in a small classroom next to the volleyball court where his son Aras used to play.In early February of last year, boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams from the town of Famagusta traveled to the eastern Turkish city of Adiyaman for a volleyball tournament.They all stayed at the Isias Hotel, known to be one of the nicest places to stay in Adiyaman, with 10 floors and good online reviews. The kids, all between the ages of 11

Eleven years ago — almost to the day — a National Geographic Explorer, Paul Salopek, began to walk across the globe. His trek started in Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, and it will eventually take him all the way to the southern tip of South America. Salopek started by traversing the route of the first human migration, about 60,000 years ago, in Africa.  “I'd gone there prepared to kind of walk in a sunlit desert, and it was a rainy day in a small village near the site of one of the earliest modern

Paul Salopek has been walking across the world for the past 11 years. He's tracing the historic path of human migration from Africa through Asia and into the Americas.The journey is part of his "Out Of Eden Walk" project in collaboration with the National Geographic Society.To date, he's walked 16,000 miles and just recently was in China where he crossed seven provinces. He will return to China this spring — he plans to cover 24,000 miles altogether. The World's hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler

On a recent Sunday morning, a group of eight women birders met in the historic botanical garden in Entebbe, a town nestled along the shore of Lake Victoria.More than 400 bird species can be found in the garden. The women oohed and aahed as they spotted some of their favorites, including a broad-billed roller perched high in a cluster of trees and the rare sight of a female great blue turaco feeding one of her chicks. “Birds are everywhere. You can miss a lion, but you can’t miss a bird!”Priscilla

In 2017, Ellie Highwood was trying to think of what to gift a colleague who had a baby on the way.“I thought it would be nice to make them something that was meaningful,” said Highwood, then a professor of climate physics at the University of Reading in England. “So, I thought, OK, well, what can I do with blankets?”Though Ellie Highwood was not the first person to come up with the idea of a "global warming blanket," her tweet about her design went viral. It inspired a former

Sumi Jaladas crawled out from a doorway on her hands and knees and kneeled in the dirt in front of her corrugated steel home to watch her neighbors in the small village of Jela Para. It had just stopped raining and many women and children were out playing and dancing along a muddy, brick walkway. Most of the men were away fishing in the nearby Bay of Bengal. Sumi Jaladas says if her village has to escape rising water, she’s dependent on her family to bring her to safety.