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

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

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 ...

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

Water stress and hazards like withering droughts and devastating floods are hitting African communities, economies and ecosystems hard. Rainfall ...

Ifrane is a town in the Middle Atlas region of northern Morocco. It has a population of about 15,000 people and is known by locals as "the Switzerland of Morocco".

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

This locale spans the modern-day Sahara desert and Amazon rainforest ... an area that today includes northern South America and northern Africa,” Heath added. The earliest-known dinosaur fossils ...

This photo provided by U.S. Africa ... Sahara Desert. U.S. military officials have warned that IS cells have received increasing direction from the group's leadership that relocated to northern ...

Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) live across much of sub-Saharan Africa, but the species ... was found last year deep in the Sahara desert, hundreds of miles north of the species' normal northern ...