And these numbers are only expected to rise as climate change takes its toll. But what many of these regions lack in traditional water sources, they make up for in fog, like the Namib Desert.

This is a climate and an ecosystem already so extreme ... To reach Sperrgebiet, I flew almost the entire extent of the Namib Desert at its broadest point (from the NamibRand Nature Reserve ...

The Southern Namib Desert is characterized by its rugged and rocky terrain, vast sand dunes, and sparse vegetation. The climate is arid and inhospitable, with very little rainfall and extreme ...

Deep in the Namib Desert, Africa's wildest wilderness ... As global drought and climate shifts intensify, this type of research can benefit future sustenance needs. Beyond appearance, Welwistschia ...

More work is also needed to understand the shifts in climate that allowed the rivers to flow into the Namib. This Southern Hemisphere, west coast desert has a very different setting to north Africa ...

This immense stretch of Namib Desert is, first and foremost, the domain of the creatures big and small that have long roamed its plains—oryx gazelles and springboks, giraffes and zebras ...