The plants that drink fog
The Karoo’s fog-drinking plants show how life adjusts to scarcity with grace and ingenuity.
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What will the Karoo farm of 2035 look like?
Some of these technologies are already arriving on South African farms. Others are still expensive or experimental, although many experts believe they will become more common over the next decade.
The science of sound: What makes the Karoo so quiet?
The next time the Karoo feels impossibly quiet, it is worth remembering that your ears are experiencing the combined effects of atmospheric physics, landscape geometry, dry air, sparse settlement and an ecosystem still able to express itself through sound rather than noise.
Can a wet winter still end in drought?
The recent rainfall has delivered welcome relief across many parts of the Karoo, but meteorologists caution that the coming summer will depend on climate patterns that are only now beginning to develop.