The Namib Sand Sea, part of the Namib Desert, is on the west coast of Namibia. It is a hyperarid landscape of towering dunes, occupying about 34,000km² between the towns of Lüderitz in the south ...

With some of the clearest night skies in the world, Namibia is a stargazer's paradise. The expansive deserts offer a clear ...

They treated it like a giant nude beach. Foreign tourists angered Namibian authorities after posing naked atop the legendary "Big Daddy" sand dune in the Namib Desert, as seen in photos ...

Step into the untamed world of the Namib Desert with these extraordinary storytellers, whose cinematic journey spans an unparalleled eight-year desert odyssey. In "Lions of the Skeleton Coast ...

For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert's "fairy circles," circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the arid ...

For over 50 years, ecologists have studied and debated the mystery of the Namib Desert’s “fairy circles,” circular patches, mostly barren of grass, that have spread across 1,100 miles in the ...

The word Namib means something like "the place where there is nothing" or simply "wide open space"—not entirely accurate, because in the Namib Desert on the southwest coast of Africa, a ...

The Namib desert from space. A picture by PRISMA 24 November 2023 . This composition is obtained over the Namib Desert, near the Skeleton Coast National Park in October 2020. The image on the left is ...

What is also fascinating about the desert are the micro-sounds that you can hear, including sand grains being blown by the wind, ants scurrying inside an acacia tree, and the slither of a side ...