The occasional oasis, perhaps? But mostly, we tend to imagine a very sandy landscape. Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at ...

Tunisia is a north African country brimming ... to the Sahara," is where most desert journeys begin. This small settlement grew around a huge palm oasis (there are over 500,000 palms in the ...

An outpost with fast charging and lots of cacti. A long day covering many miles. Welcome to the electric desert. Winter in the desert is a peculiar thing. Absent is the overwhelming force that ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of manuscripts, is facing an existential threat from the encroaching desert.

African farmers hope to revive the land with entire ecosystems being reborn. The initiative will look to increase the amount of arable land in the region bordering Africa’s Sahara Desert known ...

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 ... date back to the African Humid Period ...

The region is home to the richest mine in the world and the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Okavango Delta, the world’s largest inland delta and an incredible green oasis in the Kalahari Desert. The ...

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.

Desert Oasis defeated Shadow Ridge, winners of the previous three state titles, on the road 20-0 in a semifinal matchup Thursday while battling the elements. “To be the champ, you got to beat ...