When officials from the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish brought the oryx from South Africa to White Sands Missile ...

The Tiout Palm Oasis, whose name means “camel’s hump” in Amazigh, spans an impressive 1,000 hectares in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Visitors can enjoy peaceful moments in the cool shade of fruit trees, ...

Isotope analysis of limestone cave deposits indicates repeated humid periods in the Saharo-Arabian Desert over the past eight ...

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Black desert cobras, or Walterinnesia aegyptia, are deadly snakes with a neurotoxic venom found as far south as the ...

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

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

Clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have already resulted in over 150,000 ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.