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

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

The Sahara Desert may be millions of years older than scientists thought, researchers report in the Sept. 18 Nature. The team’s climate reconstruction suggests that the desert formed 7 million years ...

The largest hot desert in the world is vast and desolate, yet the Sahara is also home to a diverse array of plant, animal, and human life. It is the biggest desert of its kind in the world — almost as ...

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 ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Western Sahara is not a geopolitical puzzle maintained by rival regimes. It is an unfinished decolonization process, recognized as such by international law. The Sahrawi people are not a prop, nor a ...

For millennia, the Eye of the Sahara was hiding in plain sight. That's because this huge and mysterious geologic formation is hard to spot from ground level, walking around on Earth. It turns out that ...

A Moroccan military drone struck a vehicle used by gold prospectors from the Tindouf camps in the Sahara buffer zone on ...