What do you picture when you think of the Sahara? A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional oasis, perhaps? But ...

the ruins of the oracle Temple crown a hill overlooking the oasis. Ride an iron ore train across the Sahara (Mauritania) Transporting iron ore from a remote mine in the Sahara Desert to the ...

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

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

When Zhang first arrived in Mauritania in 2011, he was determined to transform this arid land into a flourishing green oasis ... have now taken root in the Sahara Desert. Between 2020 and 2024 ...

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.