Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

This desert holds the record for the hottest earth-bound temperature ever documented ... balance that sustains life across our planet. The Sahara’s gift of life to distant lands underscores ...

Dust from the Sahara desert travels to underwater caves in ... “On a daily basis, humans are moving more sediment than every river on planet earth,” says Mark Williams, a professor of ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... of rain to regions that hardly receive any, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. "What's also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara ...

Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows around a dozen giant "star dunes" as they slowly dance across a sandy field near the edge of the Sahara desert ... to NASA's Earth Observatory.

I now realise how naïve that was. Like every ecosystem on Earth, the Sahara is a beautiful and delicate balance of nature. Desert ecosystems host surprisingly high biodiversity and, because they ...