With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

(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 ...

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

"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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Eleven nations are investing in the GGW project to restore native plant life to the landscape while also ... to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.” The site further explained that by ...

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: ...