US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people ...

Cornell researchers have contributed to a multi-institutional study of how the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya—who have lived for thousands of years in extreme desert conditions—evolved to ...

Some raindrops have fallen in the drought-ridden Turkana region in northern Kenya in recent days. But will the water keep coming, feeding the livestock of the nomadic communities ...

Kenya's Lake Turkana is the world's largest permanent desert lake. Its waters have long sustained hundreds of thousands. Now ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the nomadic Turkana people have lived across the sun-baked expanses of northwestern Kenya, subsisting almost entirely on the milk, meat, and blood of their livestock. In an ...

The good news is in. Turkana is the place to be with its huge water reservoir and plenty of oil to boot. Natural resources are in plenty and the future is bright for Turkana. Initially, nobody really ...

The Turkana people, an ethnic group in Kenya, have evolved genetic adaptations to help their bodies conserve water in extreme desert heat, a new study suggests. Turkana women commonly walk 3 to 6 ...

For centuries, the Turkana pastoralists of northern Kenya have followed the water. Families once moved about 15 times a year in search of watering holes for their cows, donkeys, camels, goats and ...