Between September 7 and 8, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. The newly formed ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

Human communities have pulsed here like the explosion of plants after a rare rain. When moist ... Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

They found that the actions of wind turbines would double the amount of rain that would fall in the ... would happen if 9 million sq km of the Sahara desert was covered in renewable energy sources.

Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area that today includes northern South America and northern Africa’ ...

The brief spell of rain was too short to mitigate the longstanding ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded.

Most of the precipitation that fell in the lower elevations was rain, but higher ... which have seen recent snowfall deficits. The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world and the ...

Most of the precipitation that fell in the lower elevations was rain, but higher ... referred to as the "Gateway to the Sahara" because it sits at an elevation of about 3,600 feet, between the vast ...