Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... Between July and September every year, rainfall north of the equator in Africa ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The bounty of rainfall will likely help refill the large groundwater aquifers beneath the desert that are relied ... says the presence of water in the Sahara could profoundly alter weather ...

Human communities have pulsed here like the explosion of plants after a rare rain ... northern Africa as the climate shifted. Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara ...

An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot ... may go many years without a single drop of rain. Only plants and animals that have ...

When you think of places that are perfectly suited for solar energy, deserts often come to mind. After all, these areas ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...