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 ...

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The Southern Namib Desert is a region in Namibia that covers an area of approximately 81,000 square kilometers. It is part of the Namib Desert, which is one of the oldest deserts in the world and ...

Step into the untamed world of the Namib Desert with these extraordinary storytellers, whose cinematic journey spans an unparalleled eight-year desert odyssey. In “Lions of the Skeleton Coast,” ...

A US startup is developing a self-filling water bottle that sucks moisture from the atmosphere to create condensation, in the same way the humble Namib desert beetle does. The beetle, endemic to ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Among the towering red dunes of Namib-Naukluft National Park in the central Namib ...

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 ...

One of the photos also shows a crater-like formation in the desert. An astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared breathtaking photos of the Namib Desert in western Namibia captured from ...

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 ...

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 ...