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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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