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

This desert holds the record for the hottest earth-bound temperature ever documented ... balance that sustains life across our planet. The Sahara’s gift of life to distant lands underscores ...

After the recent discovery of the possibility of green pastures and grasslands in the Sahara Desert nearly 4,000 years ago, scientists are now trying to understand if the Earth will undergo a ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

Dust from the Sahara desert travels to underwater caves in ... “On a daily basis, humans are moving more sediment than every river on planet earth,” says Mark Williams, a professor of ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

Changes in overall rain patterns would turn Africa's Sahara Desert from this ... and swamp on the planet. So, let's do a little experiment. Let's say we reverse Earth's rotation.

Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover ...