A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models show the ...

The Kalahari Desert, which spans Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, is famous for its diverse landscapes. From sandy ...

Seas of sand form the core of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert. Our expedition caravan wound slowly between dunes, probing for terrain hard enough to get us to our end goal — wind-swept rock ...

Deep in the Sahara Desert, the sun heats the sand, and the air above it rises. The rising air carries dust — orange dust from Mauritania and Mali, white dust from an ancient lake in Chad. Clouds of ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

Many people have expressed their views on the Sahara. Few are intimately acquainted with the reality of its topography and its geography. “How can we consider this forgotten territory or this ...

One mile long, rising as barren rock no more than 10 feet above a parched plain of patchy grass and thorny acacia, is an area known as Tchinekankaran (chin-kan-karan), or “place of insects” in ...

Officials and experts from China and Africa on Sunday called for stronger scientific and technological cooperation to address ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...