Pope Francis visited 10 African countries during his five trips to the continent, promoting inter-religious dialogue and tolerance while denouncing corruption and economic colonialism. Following the ...

When officials from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish brought the oryx from South Africa to White Sands Missile ...

Sicarius Hahni is a tiny but deadly spider that lives in arid, desert regions. Learn more about this sand spider and why it buries itself.

Get a look at Desert Race Adventures in this trailer for the upcoming strategic rally adventure game with a roguelike twist. Set out on a race across Europe and Africa. Manage your team, vehicle and ...

From elephants in Botswana to leopards in the Serengeti National Park, there are so many cool African safaris that you will ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

Bertie Gregory previews the unseen behavior of penguins he filmed in docuseries narrated by Blake Lively and produced by ...

Etran de L'Aïr ("stars of the Aïr region") are a four-piece rock band from Agadez, Niger, a West African city that has an estimated population approximately the size of Santa Fe County, situated in a ...

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

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

New research reveals that the Arabian Peninsula wasn't always the barren landscape we see today, but rather cycled through ...