The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria.

A collection of crystals found at the archaeological site Ga-Mohana in the Kalahari Desert. The name Kalahari is derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning 'great thirst'. And today the climate at Ga ...

The discovery of extremely old stone-age tools and crystals at a rock shelter in the southern Kalahari Desert may change scientists’ understanding of early human culture in Africa. The ...

Deep within Botswana’s Kalahari Desert lies the Okavango Delta, a unique inland oasis where river floodwaters bring life to ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world’s atmosphere, scientists heard today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General ...

When temperatures are scorching, southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa dilate blood vessels in their beaks to thermoregulate and cool off, according to a new study ...

There is an upward limit to how hot daily air temperatures can get before birds can no longer successfully breed, indicating that rapidly advancing climate change will have widespread and destructive ...