The guide shows how diverse the climate of West Africa is, from the Sahara Desert to the Sahelian zone and the savannas and ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way.

Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up ... it’s picked up by strong winds. And while desert-adapted plants are able to survive sandstorms, too much sand exposure pummels ...

Aridification slowly turned the Sahara into a desert, ending the AHP ~5,000 years ago. Researchers now know that the Sahara and North Africa more generally swing ... through the domestication of ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara ... North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...