Alone Africa isn’t even a week old, yet the survivalist are dropping like flies. During the third episode, titled “Thirst ...

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.

Namibia is one of the most sparsely populated countries on Earth, with a staggering 97% of its land remaining largely empty. But why is this southern African nation so empty? This video explores ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Famous for its otherworldly desert scenery, Sossusvlei is home to some of the highest sand dunes in the world, with peaks ...

Desert travel doesn’t have to mean hardship. These places offer space, comfort, and something even rarer — the chance to ...

The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid landscape of towering dunes, occupying about 34,000km² between the towns of Lüderitz in the south ...

The landscape still has some greenery and pools of water dot it here and there." A striking white clay pan near Sossusvlei is Deadvlei, known for its blackened, dead camel thorn trees, which have ...

The Arabian Desert is today a vast and barren landscapes. But humid periods over the last 8 million years may have brought ephemeral rivers and grasslands to the region, a new study suggests.

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.

The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia.