The Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is often viewed as an inhospitable and barren landscape. Yet, in the ...

Aridification, when a region becomes gradually and increasingly drier, turned the once lush oasis into the Sahara desert known today. Using genomic analysis, the researchers found that the North ...

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - **0:46** The Sahel: Learn about this region's unique challenges and ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.

Two urban centers are key to a large-scale initiative regarding Niger’s ancient patrimony — Niamey, the southern capital, and Agadez, a growing oasis town within the Sahara some 560 miles north.

Edward Armstrong, Miikka Tallavaara, Peter O. Hopcroft, Paul J. Valdes. North African humid periods over the past 800,000 years. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41219-4 ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration. Sequencing of 7,000-year-old ...

The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles.

The Sahara desert. Getty Images Our ability to model the African humid periods helps us understand the alternation of humid and arid phases. This had major consequences for the dispersal and ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...