South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out ...

The Succulent Karoo Biome in South Africa is the world's only hot arid biodiversity hotspot. An area of 116,000km², the Succulent Karoo straddles the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ... Africa is a large continent and it has a range of climate zones and biomes. The Congo rainforest in Africa is one of the world’s largest ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

The largest grasslands are found in East Africa. Zebras, giraffes, elephants and rhinos all live in grasslands. The tundra is the coldest of all the biomes. There is very little rain or snow and ...

The illegal trade in succulents is on the rise The Succulent Karoo Biome in South Africa is the world's only hot arid biodiversity hotspot. An area of 116,000km2, the Succulent Karoo straddles the ...