With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

The Sahara Desert, famous for its vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness, might not always remain barren. Scientists ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

W henever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do ...

"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 ...

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

Ammar Jali, a renowned traveler and entrepreneur, continues his journey through Morocco’s most captivating landscapes.

Their ability to read the landscape was invaluable ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded.

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 ...

Mauritania's Iron Ore Train stretches across the Sahara Desert, offering an adventurous yet difficult 18-hour journey. With ...