The Sahara Desert is one of the harshest environments on Earth, covering an area larger than the USA and marked by extreme dryness, heat, and vast stretches of barren land. With only one person per ...

Determined to discover the source, course, and mouth of the Niger River, this British explorer witnessed much more than just the tracing of its waters. His notes revealed the everyday life in Africa ...

His group of 1,000 wandered from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m., he said. He never saw the missing people again. “They tossed us into the desert, without our telephones, without money,” he said.

Archaeologists get a glimpse life in a Sahara Eden By Thomas H. Maugh II Aug. 15, 2008 12 AM PT Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ...

04-03-2022 IMPACT The Sahara desert is full of plastic trash. This refugee camp is recycling it into new products One machine shreds the plastic into tiny pieces while other machines wash and dry ...

He was in the top 300 out of over 1,000 participants this year. BLOCK: So a thousand people have decided this is a great idea to run 156 miles across the Sahara. What's that like? What's the terrain?

These were stopping places with water along the trade routes through the desert. The land area was perhaps 350,000 km2 with a population of several 10,000s of people.” ...

A squeeze play between zones of high and low pressure has slingshotted a conveyor belt of airborne desert dust northward. Ordinarily, what happens in the Sahara stays in the Sahara — but recent ...