ORUPEMBE, NamibiaORUPEMBE, Namibia — The police are about the only people left in this village of 400 in the Namibian desert because the infrequent rains have ceased due to a drought, forcing ...

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 ...

Griddle-hot deserts, time-forsaken ghost towns, prismatic canyons and endless ribbons of lonely highway: There’s nothing quite like a road trip across the Southwest to get the gasoline pumping in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Victoria Schneider The survival of a unique frog species that lives in the coastal sand dunes of South Africa and Namibia ...

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 ...