The park includes a portion of the Namib Desert (said to be the ... along the Kazinga Channel and track chimpanzees. Table Mountain National Park, South Africa Arguably the best urban national ...

Africa is home to some massive countries that have incredible and varied landscapes like rainforests and deserts. But one country stands out from the rest as it’s mostly covered by sand and is ...

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 ...

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.

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.

Summer storms can lift dust as high as 15,000 feet over the African deserts and then out across the Atlantic. Garrison and her colleagues discovered that a toxic fungal pathogen known as ...