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

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

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 ...

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

One of the most significant shipwreck finds of recent times was made in an ostensibly unlikely place: a southwest African ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

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).