Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for ...

The desert in the southeast of Morocco has seen a rare downpour, which has created lakes and ponds where there once were none ...

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 a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.

A rare deluge of rain has created new lakes in the rolling sand dunes of parts of the Sahara, one of the driest places on Earth.

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint. “‘We will ...

The Sahara Desert is a mass body of sand dunes ... the Middle East, and parts of Africa: these rare weather events have climate change written all over them, and it is the main factor for the ...

Sep. 9, 2024 — A new study has found that the increase in soil erosion in coastal areas due to desertification is worsening flood impacts on Middle Eastern and North African port cities.

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

Endangered succulents in the Richtersveld have been given a lifeline from poaching, mining, overgrazing, and climate change ...

The Richtersveld Desert Botanical Garden, a first of its kind in South Africa, opened its doors in August. It aims to be a living bank of the endangered and threatened plant species in the region. The ...