There's nothing quite like looking up into an expansive night sky dotted with stars ... in southwestern Namibia is protected by the Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust (NaDEET) Center ...

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools ... then fall to a chilly 5 degrees at night. In that time, ...

Astro tourism is one of the most promising and growing sectors in the world of tour and travel. It is also an interesting way ...

Luca and Melua explore MalaMala, encountering giraffes and kudus. They then journey to the Namib Desert, where they climb the Spitzkoppe Mountain Range and enjoy a stunning sunset and starry night.

But not only Pia finds this persistent plant interesting – a desert chameleon also appears on top of the Welwitschia. While searching for nocturnal animals, Pia discovers that also at night, there is ...

but to bury beneath the dunes of the Namib Desert. Strictly nocturnal lizards, they spend the day in self-dug burrows and emerge at night to feed. Their bloodshot-looking eyes are massively ...

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. At dawn, three weeks before the winter solstice, the last tendrils of fog curled gray against the pinking sky over a sand ...

the dunes of the Namib Desert stretch far inland. A diversity of animals and plants - many of them endemic to the region - live in the desert. During the day temperatures can soar as high as 60°C ...

The archaeology of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt has not received the same attention. The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid ...