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 ...

Africa is the second-driest inhabited continent after Australia and as such, provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern ...

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

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

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

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).

“In the middle of the desert, you look left and right ... The political fallout has Europe scrambling to turn North Africa into a cordon to curb illegal entries. In Tunisia, President Kais ...

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 ...