There are stunning places across the globe where the sun shines for more than 300 days a year, offering bright, warm weather ...

And these numbers are only expected to rise as climate change takes its toll. But what many of these regions lack in traditional water sources, they make up for in fog, like the Namib Desert.

This is a climate and an ecosystem already so extreme ... To reach Sperrgebiet, I flew almost the entire extent of the Namib Desert at its broadest point (from the NamibRand Nature Reserve ...

Because of the effect of the upwelling along the Benguela coast, the Namib supports a biomass that has few rivals in the entire world. The Benguela Current also helps moderate the climate of the ...

That title goes to Dead Vlei, a white clay pan located near the renowned salt pan of Sossusvlei, which is considered the ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

Pia has traveled to the Namib Desert. Far away from civilization, she visits the Gobabeb Desert Research Station and learns amazing things about the miraculous creatures of the Namib Desert. First, ...

More work is also needed to understand the shifts in climate that allowed the rivers to flow into the Namib. This Southern Hemisphere, west coast desert has a very different setting to north Africa ...