While many spent the spring mapping out European itineraries, a new wave of travelers is looking further afield to the stark, soul-stirring deserts of Namibia and the American Southwest. In 2026, the ...

Botany professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his colleagues are seeing eddies of dune sand piling up around quiver trees at study sites in northwestern South Africa. Hoffman has been studying the iconic ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly ...