The desert is famously unforgiving, with daytime temperatures reaching up to 58C, while nighttime temperatures can plummet to ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

The new species of African house snake is known from only one specimen, a roughly 10-inch long juvenile snake caught “in high ...

The stunning city is famously remote, but those who visit are bowled over by its clear sky-blue waters and lush vegetation, ...

One of the most significant shipwreck finds of recent times was made in an ostensibly unlikely place: a southwest African desert. The Bom Jesus (The Good Jesus), a Portuguese ship, set sail for ...

Desert lizards are facing a ‘cost-of-living’ squeeze as global temperatures continue to rise, a new study finds.

Big farming projects in North Africa’s deserts are presented as a response to food insecurity. But aquifers will be depleted ...

though he never dreamed it would lead him to a gig giving tours of the sky in the middle of the African desert. It was a little touch of serendipity that led Gwynne to an exclusive resort in the ...

Spain's foreign ministry says that a Spanish man has been kidnapped in an unspecified northern African country.

Twenty-two are African languages, among them Ga (745,000 speakers in Ghana), Tshivenda (1.3 million in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique), and Wolof (8 million in Senegal).