When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay ...

A second wave of desert locusts in Africa and Asia is threatening famine for millions as critical resources are directed towards the COVID-19 crisis, scientists warn.

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From a sprawling botanical museum in Arizona to a cliffside succulent sanctuary in France, these gardens prove the desert is ...

The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

Start 2026 with perspective at South Africa’s most beautiful sunrise viewpoints, from Cape Point to the Wild Coast.