Think meerkats are just cute little desert fluffballs? Think again. These tiny troublemakers are basically the stand-up ...

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 ...

Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a mazelike series of freshwater lagoons in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, swells to some 6,200 square miles during the wet season of March to September, before shrinking ...

LONDON (Alliance News) - Miner Botswana Diamonds PLC on Thursday said it was "cautiously optimistic" about finding kimberlites in the Gope region of the Kalahari desert, after drilling began on the PL ...

Ancient scriptures and modern westerns warn us of risks inherent to the desert. The Latin root of desert was originally equated with wilderness, a people-abandoned place of spiritual desolation. Out ...

In Southern Africa, the government of Botswana is moving some of the last San Bushmen out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Botswana officials call it progress, but Bushmen argue that the move ...

The investigations of the disappearance of two pilots in the northern Kalahari Desert region of Botswana in 1943-44 are described. Search parties excavated and mapped a hunting camp and a burned ...

Gaborone - A team of lawyers from the United Kingdom and South Africa will on Monday start presenting arguments in a specially convened High Court in the Kalahari Desert. At issue is the fight of the ...

A team of researchers working with colleagues from the Botswana National Museum shed new light on the questions of when cattle were brought to southern Africa and from where. A domestic cow bone, ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bushmen in Botswana's Central Kalahari game reserve have written to the Dalai Lama, asking him to appeal to the government on their behalf for restoring their ...