Shannon Morreira works for the University of Cape Town. A wildfire on the slopes of South Africa’s Table Mountain has wreaked havoc at the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus. Among the sites of ...

Cape Town, South Africa — Fire crews worked for a third day to extinguish a wildfire on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain on Tuesday as the city came to terms with the damage caused by what ...

A wildfire that engulfed Cape Town, South Africa, has decimated valuable historic archives of African history at the city's university. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is home to one of the largest ...

Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at the University of Cape Town's Jagger Reading Room on April 18. Photo by Rodger Bosch / AFP / Getty Images A wildfire that sparked on the slopes of South ...

The University’s School of Public Health received a $1.9 million grant to launch a teaching and research collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa to explore innovative ways to ...

Update (April 20): Nature reports that in addition to the library, the botany building also suffered significant damage. UCT’s Plant Conservation Unit lost all of the fossilized pollen used to study ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town challenge a long-held belief about estimating the ages of crocodiles and dinosaurs, revealing that growth marks in bones may not be as reliable as ...