Comparison photos shared on social media show the impact of unusually heavy rain in the Sahara Desert. The before-and-after ...

Ethiopia opens Africa's largest hydropower project, the Blue Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a milestone that's ...

The Sahara is already the largest hot desert in the world, covering most of North Africa. Yet it isn’t staying the same size—it’s still expanding. Scientists sa ...

Saudi Arabia is home to one of the world's biggest deserts - Copyright AFP FRANCK FIFE Saudi Arabia is home to one of the world's biggest deserts - Copyright AFP ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Map showing (in red) the areas where heavy erosion was detected by satellite radar images following Storm Daniel in the watersheds of Eastern Libya and how the the streams loaded with high amounts of ...