(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 ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

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 ...

New climate research warns that a wetter Sahara Desert could be in our future, as major rainfall increases and reduced Saharan dust threaten to intensify the Atlantic hurricane season, worsen drought ...

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 ...

Few lions remain in desert Africa (Photo courtesy Bush Warriors) NEW YORK, New York, December 5, 2013 (ENS) – The African lion has vanished from the Sahara desert, while cheetahs and gazelles are ...

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 ...

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than expected. It turns out these two developments are both linked to an unexpected ...

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 ...