With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid, but it wasn't always this way. Around 10,000 years ago, this same desert was a vibrant, lush savanna teeming with life, thanks to abundant rainfall.

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

Students explain what it is like to go to school in the Sahara and what they have to do if they want to continue studying. The students go to a boarding school called 9 de junio. Here they study ...

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

Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ... The project has an estimated life span of only 50 to 100 years, a blink of the eye in this region.

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 ...

So, the old desert lakes will come back to life.” Six consecutive years of ... Mr Youabeb says the presence of water in the Sahara could profoundly alter weather forecasts in the future.