By Leonie Joubert Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their ...

Sossusvlei is part of the Namib Desert, which is considered the world's oldest desert, dating back at least 55 million years.

W henever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do ...

As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts, covering ...

USUALLY the soil is regarded as something particularly stable, but this stability is almost wholly due to its normal covering of vegetation. There is always a danger that if the cover of ...