An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

The Sahara Desert, known today for its vast, arid landscapes, was once a fertile region teeming with life. A recent study analyzing stalagmites from caves in southern Morocco has revealed that between ...

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

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 a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

Scientists believe that natural climate cycles, climate change, and human activities could potentially transform the desert into a green landscape again. Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert ...

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 ...

The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes ... Migrations Project team members Kevin White and Nick Drake have been able to map the location of mineral residues from ancient lakes ...

“The Great Green Wall aims to create a vast belt of restored land using innovative techniques to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.” The site further explained that by 2030, the ...

The Sahara, common space to ten States - Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan,Tunisia -, is characterised by a rich cultural, human and natural wealth, ...