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

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet ...

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 ...

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are ...

The evidence suggests that the desert received more rainfall ... This new record on the northern edge of the Sahara adds vital information for understanding how climate has changed in this region ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

Of everything that we did in Morocco, spending a night in a Sahara desert luxury camp (aka going glamping in the Sahara) was ...

The Sahara is very likely the ... We now know that these images document a dramatic climate change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today to a nearly completely vegetated ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.