Africa’s Namib Desert is a harsh and unforgiving place, home to shifting, barren sand dunes, jagged mountains, and gravel plains. The vast desert — whose name means “place of no people” in the local ...

As my older daughter prepared last summer to take off for college, there was just one thing left to do: Kidnap her and take her someplace where there is little Wi-Fi, no boyfriend and no threat of ...

Jill Here! The time is going way too fast. After spending a week in the Kunene and the northern Namib Desert we headed south to explore the southern reaches of the Namib. We met up with my longtime ...

Fairy circles are circular patches of perennial grasses with a barren center that emerge in the deserts along the southwest coast of Africa. Dotting the Namibian deserts, these rings can persist for ...

One evening earlier this spring, German naturalist Norbert Jürgens strayed from his expedition in the Namib Desert. He walked away from his campsite beside Leopard Rock, a huge pile of schist slabs ...

The new “dusking” slow travel trend encourages travelers to unplug and watch the night slowly unfold. New data ranks ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Namib Desert in western Namibia. At 55 million years old, Namib is considered the oldest desert on Earth. In this image, captured on 27 ...

Gondwana Namib Park, a privately owned nature reserve, offers a unique glimpse into the life of wildlife endemic to the area. Located near the Namib Naukluft Park, this area showcases a harmonious ...

(Bloomberg) -- Early in May, King Philippe of Belgium was on the edge of the Namib desert to inaugurate a project that aims to help decarbonize European industry, and which might just enable one of ...

Namibia-born artist Max Siedentopf's desert art installation plays the '80s anthem on loop somewhere in the desert. Max Siedentopf, Toto Forever (2019), a installation playing Toto's hit 1982 song ...