Study project up to 75% more summer rain in the Sahara by late century. Some African regions will get wetter and West Southern Africa may dry ...

One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape. Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of ...

The mere mention of the Sahara often conjures an image of an unchanging, inhospitable desert fixed in its aridity. And yet, several millennia ago, this region had a very different appearance, with ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The ...

An unusual early September cyclone drenched large parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, filling dry lakes and rivers. New satellite imagery from NASA shows the impact of the deluge. Satellite ...

The aerial footage shot at Merzouga near Rachidia, in southeastern Morocco reveals the extent of flooding triggered by the downpours. In a social media post, Morocco's General Directorate of ...

(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 ...

ASD-1 is an example stalagmite used in our study, from a cave found by Dr Julia Barrott during her 2010 fieldwork. We are careful to work with samples that are already broken from natural processes, e ...