Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...
The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. Over ...
The US president signed a series of executive orders to remove diversity, equity and inclusion from the military, reinstate thousands of troops who were kicked out for refusing COVID vaccines, and ...
Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...
Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to ...
indicate that dust from the Sahara Desert, transported over hundreds of thousands of kilometers by winds over the tropical Atlantic Ocean to South America, help form the clouds responsible for 80% of ...
An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...
This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...
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 ...
Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing ...
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...