As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...

A Bracknell woman is preparing to trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of a local girl who died one year after being diagnosed with a ...

This year marks 50 years since Morocco invaded Western Sahara, forcibly displacing the Sahrawi people into Algeria. Women's ...

This battle can be won': desert expert reveals how China's technology, funding and strategies aid ambitious environmental ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...

Twentynine Palms, the small California desert city that’s home to 30,000 ... Some of this increase in visitation has brought growing pains, from housing converted to short-term rentals for ...

In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, ...

During this time, the Sahara was temporarily transformed into a swampy environment covered in vegetation — a shift that ended only around 4,000 years ago, researchers wrote at the time.

Deserts, including the Sahara, are expanding at ... that it has contributed to stopping the desert in its tracks. It can take years for taproots to grow deep enough into the earth to access ...

The growing number of people worldwide ... Another thing I’ve learnt from my time in desert hideouts like Arizona, the southern Sahara, the edge of the Gobi and even on a train honeymoon through ...