The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world's atmosphere. Sands like those in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana are full of cyanobacteria.

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In the heart of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert lies a natural wonder unlike any other—the Okavango Delta. Fed by a river that disappears into the sands, this vast inland oasis transforms the desert into a ...

The sands of the desert are an important and forgotten storehouse of carbon dioxide taken from the world’s atmosphere, scientists heard today (Wednesday 2 April 2008) at the Society for General ...

Les Stroud travels deep into the Kalahari Desert to live with the San people. Les travels for two days to reach the San Kalahari tribe and is accepted into the tribe itself. Follow him as he learns ...

When temperatures are scorching, southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa dilate blood vessels in their beaks to thermoregulate and cool off, according to a new study ...

There is an upward limit to how hot daily air temperatures can get before birds can no longer successfully breed, indicating that rapidly advancing climate change will have widespread and destructive ...

Tiny weaver birds make huge nests on telegraph poles in the Kalahari desert A telephone pole near Upington in South Africa is covered by nests made of twigs and grass by sociable weaver birds.

The Crash: I had a freshly minted motorcycle license when I jetted off on a press trip across South Africa. Accordingly, I was looking forward to quad biking to the Augrabie Falls in the Kalahari ...

There may be few trees in the desert to offer shelter from the baking sun but the sociable weaver bird doesn't let that stop it from building enormous nests to house hundreds of birds. The structures ...