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

In August 2024, the Jasper House Museum in Oranjemund, Namibia, unveiled a new exhibition dedicated to the artifacts recovered from the Bom Jesus, a 500-year-old Portuguese shipwreck discovered in the ...

Let’s embark on a visual journey through some of the top desert destinations and discover the must-see desert attractions that should be on every traveler’s list. Best Amazing Desert Landscapes 1.

When desert ecosystems have been damaged or destroyed, how do we restore ecological functions, including those directly benefiting humans? Desert restoration is difficult, but possible. Aa Aa Aa ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in ... summer months," and "sags south of the equator during the Southern Hemisphere's warm months," said CNN.

This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that ... that gripped Southern Africa between 2015 and 2021.

Michael Schober (Austria) reveals a precious waterhole inset like a green gem within the sand dunes of the Namib Desert. The emerald pool was invisible to Michael ... His travels have taken him to ...

This is reportedly Africa’s first jazz festival to be held in the Namib Desert. Three stages will operate between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay. With a beach and desert experience, music lovers will ...

there have been several promising developments in building a unified AI policy for the 54 nations in the African Union—including the first UNESCO-Southern Africa sub-Regional Forum on Artificial ...

Rewind 10 years to the building of the Aswan Dam across the Nile in southern Egypt during the ... to stop the expansion of the desert in North Africa,” says Sivertsen. (Read more about the ...