The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a sense of scale ...

David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes us to prehistory. They are time travelers who use four-wheel-drive vehicles to navigate the Sahara ...

The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and ... The round leaves are thick, green and covered in sharp spines. It produces flowers that can be pink or yellow. The prickly pear survives ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

These dunes are the reason Piscinas has been nicknamed the “Little Sahara of Italy ... In the Sardinian desert, things do grow, such as junipers, rare flowers, beach grass and wild olive ...

In a stunning twist of nature, one of the world's driest and most unforgiving landscapes, the Sahara Desert, has experienced an unprecedented flood. Torrential rainfall in September has filled ...

Elad Dente from University of Haifa, led by their student Joëlle Rieder at ETH Zurich. The Sahara Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has not always been as arid as it is today.

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...