DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara has uncovered a lost human lineage that remained untouched for 50,000 ...

The Sahara Desert, long seen as one of the harshest places on Earth, is beginning to transform into farmland. In this video, we explore the incredible projects, techniques, and innovations making it ...

Morocco faces an escalating desert locust threat as a major outbreak continues to expand across the Sahara and Mauritania, ...

Fancy a sunny break that breaks free from the sunlounger without a long-haul flight? These destinations have the answer ...

Belgium endorses Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara, joining the U.S., France, UK, and Spain in support. The ...

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

Study project up to 75% more summer rain in the Sahara by late century. Some African regions will get wetter and West ...

Smuggled migrants can face a wide range of abuses, from the confiscation of documents to forced labour and extortion. Women ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...

An enormous sinkhole that appeared on a plot of mining land in Chile’s Atacama Desert region has continued to grow. The gigantic cavity was first seen on July 30 in a rural area outside the town of ...

A colossal brown ribbon of seaweed, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, stretches across the Atlantic Ocean. This massive ...

“Greatest sunset ever,” Turek said when the light had finally died. The rain, which had been stalking us on the savanna, was now in full flow. It followed us back to the lodge, and by the time we got ...