Desert creep in South Africa spells bleak future for succulent-resplendent Karoo

Mongabay
Mar 20, 2025, 6:58 am139 pts
Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South African and Namibian border along the Orange River. “We’ve just arrived in the Namaskluft,” says Wendy Foden,…

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