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 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, ...

A pack of African wild dogs chased their prey, a kudu, straight into a small swimming pool in the Kalahari Desert. Watch here ...

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 ...

My third-grade geography class contained a section on studying deserts. I was fascinated by what I then thought was a lifeless Sahara, a massive stretch of land with nomadic inhabitants that was ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's an earworm for the ages. An artist from Namibia has installed a group of speakers and an MP3 player, to play "Africa" by Toto, in the song's namesake, Africa -- specifically in the Namib Desert.

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Rock band Toto's smash hit "Africa" has come home, so to speak. An artist recently set up a sound installation, designed to play the song on a continuous loop. The solar-powered ...