The barren semi-desert Turkana region is home to about a million people. For a large part of the mainly nomadic pastoralist inhabitants of the area today, surviving in what is easily the harshest ...

Scientists discovered genetic variants in the Turkana that help conserve water in deserts, but these variants may now raise disease risks in urban settings, early data suggest. When you purchase ...

Through a collaboration between U.S. and Kenyan researchers and Turkana communities of northern Kenya, scientists have uncovered key genetic adaptations underlying survival in hot and dry environments ...

Water scarcity is becoming the defining international crisis of the twenty-first century. Water conflicts rage across the world as communities struggle to secure a clean, reliable supply. One of the ...

TURKANA, Kenya – The branches on trees around Kenya’s northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. Numbers of locusts ...

There has always been a very fine margin between life and death in the dry lands of Kenya’s northern Turkana County. But while Turkana has always been poor, underdeveloped and neglected, the twin ...

Turkana woman in northern Kenya. The Turkana—340,000 in all—are a fiercely traditional tribe living mostly in this North Carolina-sized region of Kenya, west of Lake Turkana, south of Sudan, and east ...