The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

Hailstorms can occur in the Sahara Desert due to sudden atmospheric changes. These rare phenomena create striking images over the dunes. How Katy Perry became the Hot and Cold popstar See the ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ...

This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our human origins. An interdisciplinary team from the Max Planck Institute, the University of Florence ...

The rest mostly go unnoticed, blending in with other stones. But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look for: rocks with a strikingly dark surface, known as the fusion crust.

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.

This lost group in the Sahara Desert had a distinct genetic makeup that was much different than scientists expected to find out among ancient humans traveling in and out of Africa. Between 5,000 ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and the great savanna. Though dozens of tribes ...

Research presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU25) shows that fine dust particles from the Sahara are significantly affecting photovoltaic (PV) energy output across Europe.

Each year, the Sahara Desert releases billions of tons of fine dust into the air. While much of it stays in Africa, tens of millions of tons drift northward, reaching countries across Southern and ...

(Reuters) – The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...