We take you through some of the continent’s prized animals and landscapes ... many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern Africa was created more than 55 million ...

In drought-stricken Namibia, where conservation groups are fighting to preserve endangered species, paying tourists can join ranger patrols.

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and ...

One of the planet's largest, driest biogeographic barriers was once lush with rivers and lakes for 8 million years, which encouraged the movements of water-dependent animals and indicates the ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

plants and animals adapt to the challenges of their own habitat. These distant fox cousins range from the far frozen north of the arctic to the scorching heat of the African desert, and everywhere ...

This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South African and Namibian border along the ...