This time of year the Stapeliads, a rare group African succulents, come into full bloom amidst desert gardens. With enormous flowers the size of a large opened hand, borne profusely on low growing ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert on planet-crossing over 12 African countries with 3.6 million square miles. Its size is compared to the entire United ...

The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

Willem Jankowitz, his white beard trimmed into a goatee, peers at a small, purple flower through his bifocals. Everybody calls him “Doc.” His colleague, Peter Cunningham, is stretched out under their ...

The cast and crew describe how they shot those North African desert scenes. The cast and crew of Season 2 describe how they approached designing the sets and filming the North African desert scenes, ...

Everyone loves “Africa” by Toto, but one artist really took his fandom of the song to another level. Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf set up speakers and a solar-powered MP3 player in the Namib ...

The Namib is a desert in southern Africa, and thanks to a new sound installation, it will be the home to a new art installation that aims to play Toto’s “Africa” on eternal repeat, NPR reports.

One day in the not-too-distant future, when the nearest star to our galaxy suddenly collapses, a group of astrophysicists from around the globe will convene to discuss the theoretical physics of the ...

“Africa is probably one of the last things you’d think of looking at my pieces,” says Kate O’Connor of her spring line, “but I was super-influenced by it.” Although the L.A.-based designer’s latest ...

I was far from home, in a place of deprivation, among strangers who spoke no English and didn't celebrate our holidays. But 30-plus years later, it remains my favorite Christmas. I’d gone to Africa to ...