Namibia is a southwestern African nation roughly twice the size of California, known for having the world’s oldest desert.

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China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

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Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.