By Mongabay.com Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern ...

Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying ... it’s picked up by strong winds. And while desert-adapted plants are able to survive sandstorms, too much sand exposure ...

Although large parts of this desert region are protected, it still faces threats from unsustainable land practices, mining and illegal plant harvesting. One unique way of protecting Namibia's ...

Plants died and animals departed ... chattering away and posing for photos. In Namibia, it’s often just you and the desolate beauty of the desert. Our next destination was even more remote.

Namibia's civil war started in ... source of food for invertebrates. They're the desert's building blocks for larger communities of plants and animals. In recognition of their vulnerability ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...