Can Africa's Great Green Wall Stop Its Deserts From Spreading?A massive ecological project aims to halt desertification and ...

The Kalahari Desert has beautiful red sands that provide a scenic backdrop for hikers. This semi-arid area hosts different ...

By Mongabay.com Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern ...

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

Namibia, on the west coast of Africa, offers warm temperatures all ... and large sections of the country are dominated by deserts. The population is not uniformly dispersed, the majority of ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and the great savanna. Though dozens of tribes ...

In the deserts of Africa and the Middle East, scientists have discovered tiny rock tubes that appear to have been made by ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in the north, to the Cape region in the south. Join presenter, Chioma, as she ...

These sandstorms may be short-lived, but lethal, even to desert-adapted plants that have ... and now with China taking over the baton, though South Africa is Africa’s leading greenhouse gas ...

Algeria is a vast country, the largest in Africa and about a quarter of the size of the United States. Most of it is desert. I first learned about Algeria as a teenager, reading the work of ...