The Great Man-Made River Project was an engineering project financed by Gaddafi, designed to supply coastal Libya with fossil ...

Bushfires are deadly, they can break out in the blink of an eye and last for days in the vast desert of Mauritania.

The rocky and sandy mountains of Zagora, Morocco, rise dramatically from the arid desert floor like natural fortresses shaped ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

Discover the fascinating journey of the Sahara Desert from a once-fertile region to a promising global hub for renewable ...

New research suggests the Saharan Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, could see up to 75% more rainfall by the end of ...

New climate research warns that a wetter Sahara Desert could be in our future, as major rainfall increases and reduced Saharan dust threaten to intensify the Atlantic hurricane season, worsen drought ...

On the ground, its rings are hard to appreciate; dunes, heat haze, and uneven terrain all conspire to hide the full shape. But from space, especially in the images taken by the Copernicus satellite, ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

A once-domed 10th-century reception hall with an octagon-shaped pool at the center was part of the hammam in Aghmat.(Sara Toth Stub) Fifteen years ago, retired archaeologist Ronald Messier, who had ...

Last week (20 November), the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) witnessed an unusually tense debate. The European Commission presented a proposal to modify the ...