The Sahara is often imagined as one endless field of dunes, but in reality it is a complex system of ergs, rocky regs, ...

Modern maps show the Sahara as an unbroken band of sand and rock stretching across the width of northern Africa, the largest ...

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 has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by University of Maryland scientists. The research is the first to assess century-scale changes to the ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s water largely receded 6,000 years ago. Could it return? The Ennedi Natural ...

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 ...

You may experience weather as a local phenomenon, but changes hundreds or thousands of miles away can impact the weather in your hometown. A new study finds that hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico might ...