"The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali" is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity in these two west African countries. In a recently published paper, a ...

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Think of African elephants and you might picture them wandering among open grasslands or making their homes in forests. But in northwest Namibia, amidst an arid landscape of rocky mountains, sand, and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The change in the frog’s conservation status is based on assessments carried out by scientists from various Southern African universities and ...

Lining the Cape of South Africa and its southern coast are long chains of caves that nearly 200,000 years ago were surrounded by a lush landscape and plentiful food. During a glacial phase that lasted ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

A look at the dramatic extremes of the African continent. This episode focuses on a variety of wildlife living high up in the mountains of Africa, including the bizarre gelada baboons of the Ethiopian ...