But what many of these regions lack in traditional water sources, they make up for in fog, like the Namib Desert. It's one of the oldest and driest places in the world. Depending on how far you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Michael Schober (Austria) reveals a precious waterhole inset like a green gem within the sand dunes of the Namib Desert. The emerald pool was invisible to Michael, who was on the ground. ‘Only when ...

The world's oldest desert is to be blessed with one of the most listened-to songs - Africa by Toto. Namibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to ...

Their color provides perfect camouflage among the powdery reddish sands of the Namib Desert, their primary habitat. These geckos have adapted their webbed feet not only to help them stay atop ...

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 ...

They bothered no one," an X user posted. The Big Daddy dune is one of the three largest dunes in Namibia's enormous Namib-Naukluft National Park, one of the largest in the world. The dunes are ...