In Botswana's Okavango Delta — declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 — warming trends over the past two decades are approximately twice the global average.

From climate change to human activities, the Okavango Delta is facing a cascade of challenges and scientists say urgent ...

Complex, ever changing patterns of water and land support the bountiful wildlife and vegetation of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. By opening trails that become channels, elephants add to the dynamism.

Viewed from low orbit above the African continent, the Okavango Delta shows up as a bright bluish-green alluvial fan carved into northern Botswana. For thousands of kilometers, watery fingers ...

Image above: The Okavango's annual flood edges closer to the Xudum pride's territory. Botswana’s Okavango Delta is one of the most remarkable and unique ecosystems on Earth. Image above ...

Botswana’s deal to acquire a stake in Belgian gem trader HB Antwerp — proposed by the previous government but never completed ...

The Okavango Delta is probably the closest any of us will get to the Garden of Eden. It was here in northern Botswana, about 200,000 years ago, that the first modern humans were born. They lived ...

The data showed that some of these watering holes had experienced blooms of algae containing deadly toxins. An analysis of ...

Minister of Environment and Tourism, Wynter Mmolotsi, has pledged government support for conservation science and regional collaboration to protect the Okavango Delta.

This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into a sea or ocean, with a ...