In 1908, a railway worker clearing sand beside a track in what is now Namibia noticed something unusual: stones that caught ...

The Namib is the oldest desert in the world, an almighty sea of sand running for almost a thousand miles along Namibia's Atlantic coastline. With few roads running to it or through it, the desert is ...

The event takes place primarily at Sandhof Farm, located roughly 40 kilometres north of the remote southern town of Maltahhe in Namibia.

A Namibian railway worker discovered a diamond in 1908, sparking a significant diamond rush. Kolmanskop rapidly transformed into a wealthy African town with impressive infrastructure. More profitable ...

Even in a country of impossibly great distances, Sossusvlei is remote. With its red sand dunes and white salt pans, Namibia’s southern Namib Desert looks so Martian that it wouldn’t come as a shock if ...

It’s a startling juxtaposition. Outdoors in Namibia’s NamibRand Nature Reserve in the southwest section of the Namib Desert are gravel plains bordered by ancient granite mountains and burnt orange ...

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 ...

Namibian environmental groups are furious with the makers of the new Mad Max film, claiming they they've seriously damaged the fragile ecosystem of the Namib Desert -- a region that is undergoing ...

Intense sun and wind make Namibia a dry, dusty place. But once-in-a-decade rainfall transformed it into a green oasis, which I photographed on a 5,600-mile road trip in 2021. With about 17% of the ...

Editor’s note: When Leucadia resident Allan Karl found himself at a fork in the road of his life — out of a job and recently divorced — he hopped on his motorcycle and spent the next three years ...