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 study states that the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region in North ... a unique nuclear bomb fingerprint, remained in the ...

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 annual occurrence happens when dust from the Saharan Desert in Africa is carried over ... Temperatures will range from the upper 80s to the mid-90s.

Fifteen poems from Elliott spotlight Saharan desert fauna in this evocative, place-rooted collection. Employing a range of poetic styles, spare but effective second-person lines pay tribute to the ...

This part of the Saharan desert is thought to be less explored than parts of the moon. Nomadic people have moved with camels through this landscape for thousands of years in search of water.

Scientists and policymakers are mostly concerned about soils degrading in once-fertile regions that are gradually becoming wastelands, rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti ...