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

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 ...

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...

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

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

Contact her at [email protected] The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... the modern human lineages that spread outside of Africa around 50,000 years ago.

Mbele Nonhlanhla laced up her silver cleats as her coach shouted encouragement to creaky knees, stiff backs and laboured breathing in a dressing room in South Africa's far north. At 63 ...

Fresh dung. Tracks in the sand of the Namib desert. The black rhinoceros cannot be far away. Wildlife rangers Stefanus Ganuseb, 42, and Fritz Hoeb, 45, are patrolling on foot, equipped with ...

CAPE TOWN, April 2 (Reuters) - South Africa's parliament passed the budget's fiscal framework on Wednesday after weeks of political wrangling, but the future of the coalition government was thrown ...