NASA scientists said that the historic event was triggered by a cyclone and similar storms are expected to occur in the ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

"That," Mattingly notes, "is an awful lot of people in the hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

In an unprecedented turn of events, regions of the Sahara Desert have been inundated by ... inches of rain fell in just one ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

Discover five of the most unusual Saharan traditions that persist in the heart of Algeria. The Tinde is more than a musical ...

By the Swedish Council Communist group Folkmakt, this text talks about the struggle of the Polisario Front in Western Sahara. Originally published in "Folkmakt, No. 2" ...

The Sahara is very likely the ... change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today to a nearly completely vegetated landscape dotted with large and small lakes during the early ...