In West Africa, there's a territory the size of Colorado that doesn't officially belong to any nation. Photos show life in ...
A 2025 astronaut photo shows a massif made of concentric mountain ridges in the Libyan desert. The rocky walls contain ...
A giant dust storm stretching over 1,500 kilometres is sweeping across the Sahara, with satellite images revealing one of the ...
The analysis of a sediment core from an oasis lake in Chad provides new insights into the history of precipitation in the ...
From the International Space Station, it looks unmistakably like a scar left by a meteorite: a series of concentric rocky ...
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.
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 Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire hemisphere. Yet geological records show that this same region has repeatedly ...
Sahara dust turns skies red over Crete Strong winds carried Sahara dust across the Mediterranean, turning skies over Crete a ...
Saharan dust storm blankets Mediterranean island as winds carry dust from north Africa ...