An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient people cultivated fertile lands. However, we know how it all ended - today ...

An ancient trading post known for housing some of West Africa's most historically significant manuscripts could soon be covered by the Sahara Desert ...

The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and cold at night but others, like the Gobi desert, can be a lot colder. A hot desert is often covered in sand and the plants and animals that ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold with scarce resources.

Dust from the Sahara desert travels to underwater caves in the ... microscopic aquatic plant life, take minerals from the ground and light from the sun to become the biggest food source in the ...