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

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

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over ... lines that intersect Earth's tectonic plates, because this is where the planet's crust is weakest and ...

The Sahara desert is the world's largest non-polar ... for those who dare to cross this vast desert, the hottest on planet Earth. But aside from this, what else is there to know about it?

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

Study suggests dinosaurs originated in the Amazon, but their fossils are missing. They started as small, bipedal creatures in ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

Dust from the Sahara desert travels to underwater caves in ... “On a daily basis, humans are moving more sediment than every river on planet earth,” says Mark Williams, a professor of ...

Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover ...