The two walked 10 hours a day for 12 days across the enormous desert landscape, where temperatures would rise to 38 degrees ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more arid, with some parts receiving absolutely no rain at all for 200 million ye ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...