The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a sense ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by ...

Due to his origins in Eritrea and personal passions, Dr. Mesghinna published a book addressing the availability of food in Africa, called “How Sub-Saharan Africa Can Achieve Food Security.” ...

The new watersheds it traveled span a large swath of mountains, hills and high prairie stretching from Leadville to Salida, Fairplay and Cañon City. The map shows where the state’s now 29 ...

The Palisades fire has burned almost 24,000 acres through the Pacific Palisades and into the Santa Monica Mountains ... By cross-referencing its maps and the fire footprints with maps of local ...

The study provides a useful snapshot of the status of digital agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa against six focal themes essential to understanding digital agriculture, namely: infrastructure, digital ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth ...

“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” UO’s Leif Karlstrom, a co-author of the study, said in a press statement. “That ...

The newly mapped aquifer lies beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Cascades, acting like a giant, continental-sized lake stored in the mountains. “It is a continental-size lake stored in ...

The newly updated map shows all of Morocco’s territory, explicitly recognizing the Western Sahara as an integral part of the North African country. The CIA's official website now describes ...

Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains. These ice forests are giving up ancient secrets about the past — and future — ...