Researchers have found a vast number of animal remains—including those of fish—at a site in the Sahara Desert, casting new light on the ancient peoples who used to live there. Recent investigations at ...

An escalation in the number of conflicts across the Sahara and the Sahel in Africa is driving down numbers of the region’s wildlife, a new study finds. The authors found that the number of conflicts ...

The Sahara is already the largest hot desert in the world, covering most of North Africa. Yet it isn’t staying the same size—it’s still expanding. Scientists say the Sahara has grown by about 10% in ...

Of everything that we did in Morocco, spending a night in a Sahara desert luxury camp (aka going glamping in the Sahara) was ...

Dust from the Sahara desert reached the United States this week, blanketing the skies over parts of the Southern US, causing an orange glow in the sky. On Sunday, the National Weather Service posted ...

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 ...

Scientists have cast new light on the age of the Sahara—the largest hot desert in the world, which spans a vast swathe of the African continent. The desert's age has been a topic of contention for ...

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This very graphic video shows how Nigerians (mostly Igbos) trying to cross to Europe through the Sahara Desert die in the desert from lack of water, food and heat. These men, sometimes in a group of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria — Algerian forces launched a military assault today at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's ...