We humans cannot do without water in a day. Our body loses water through breathing, sweating and excretion. Well, there are ...

Get to know the bat-eared fox, an insect-eating creature found in the grasslands and savannas of Africa (and also the ...

Researchers who were dropped off by helicopter in a largely inaccessible and remote canyon in South Africa say they have ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

They are the Meharists, heirs to the camel-riding army units founded back in the time when imperialist France ruled the west African nation, whom AFP accompanied on patrol for two days ...

The sand gazelle, also known as the rhim gazelle, roams some of the driest deserts in Africa and the Middle East. These graceful animals have evolved to need almost no water at all. They get most of ...

For the first time, Alone heads to Africa, where 10 survivalists will fight to keep themselves alive in the unforgiving Great Karoo Desert. The Great Karoo is a semi-desert and “is South Africa ...

Every summer, an extraordinary environmental phenomenon takes place as vast clouds of dust journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert to the Americas. This annual event, known as the ...

At every turn, the numbers shock. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1909 expedition to East Africa killed more than 11,000 animals, so many creatures it took eight years to catalogue them all. The scale of the ...

Advocating for migrants, many of whom have made perilous journey across North African deserts or the Mediterranean to reach Europe, was one of Francis' priorities as pope. His first trip outside ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. Conservationists in Africa are trying to ...

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham ... that purport to show the routes animals and early humans used to disperse from Africa. But a green Arabia could ...