The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust Centre teaches visitors about the Earth and provides units for overnight ...

Strewn across the Namib desert is a treasure trove of stone tools ... then fall to a chilly 5 degrees at night. In that time, they endured a two-day-long sandstorm and when they got closer to ...

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 ...

Once a thriving diamond mining settlement deep within the Namib Desert, Kolmanskop in southern Namibia is now a hauntingly beautiful ghost town, slowly being reclaimed by the sand. With wallpaper ...

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 ...

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 ...

This immense stretch of Namib Desert is, first and foremost ... is the merging of the dark skies with the utter quiet of night. Gaze at the stars in a state-of-the-art observatory, and then ...

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 ...

Show more In the baked Namib desert, a pair of ostriches raise their family in the searing heat to keep them safe from predators – but time is ticking as the chicks begin to hatch. Outside of ...

Although large parts of this desert region are protected, it still faces threats from unsustainable land practices, mining and illegal plant harvesting. One unique way of protecting Namibia's ...