A spectacularly eroded limestone massif rising out of an arid savanna running alongside the Mozambique Channel, the Ankarana ("an-kar-ana") is topped by razor-sharp rock formations called tsingy.

But rising temperatures and increasing drought are bringing it ever closer to crossing the threshold from lush rainforest to arid savannah. Both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting ...

It is a click language, historically spoken by some factions of the ǂKhomani people from the southern Kalahari, a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa. The ǂKhomani people are the ...

situated in the ecological transition zone between the mountain ecosystem and the semi-arid savanna grasslands. The area also lies within the traditional migrating route of the African elephant ...