A stunning dry lake in Africa that is famous for its towering red sand dunes is one of the world’s best destinations to visit in April. Located in the southern part of the Namib Desert ...

Africa is the second-driest inhabited continent after Australia and as such, provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern ...

While African leopards span the continent, inhabiting a variety of environments like grasslands, rainforests, deserts and ...

By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus visible-light camera, and depicts the first snowfall recorded in the massive African desert in 37 years. The snow-covered area ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...