(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into ... it created a new, watery landscape amid the palm trees and scrubby flora. Some of the most dramatic images are ...

"That," Mattingly notes, "is an awful lot of people in the hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

In an unprecedented turn of events, regions of the Sahara Desert have been inundated by ... inches of rain fell in just one day, leaving the landscape transformed into temporary lakes.

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 ...

Mauritania's Iron Ore Train stretches across the Sahara Desert, offering an adventurous yet difficult 18-hour journey. With ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

The town of Swakopmund in Namibia is world-famous for its huge desert landscape and giant dunes that create ideal conditions ...

Their ability to read the landscape was invaluable ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded.

The Sahara is very likely the ... change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today to a nearly completely vegetated landscape dotted with large and small lakes during the early ...

The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which lies immediately to the south of the Sahara Desert and which extends across most of Africa. The main causes of desertification include: ...