Discusses desert biomes, highlighting their unique characteristics, such as extreme temperatures, lack of water, and diverse adaptations of plants and animals. It explains how deserts are formed by ...

Part of the larger Sahara, Tenere Desert is famous for its vast sand dunes and sparse vegetation. Located in Niger, it ...

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater ...

Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan ...

The top 5 largest deserts in the world aren't just hot and humid; rather, two out of the five have extreme cold situations ...

Ancient genomes from Libya’s Takarkori shelter have provided new insights into the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

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 ...

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert ... plants that once grew there and the types of sediments produced by the climate, and showed that Arabia—and likely the Sahara ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

Joe examines an ambitious climate intervention—transforming the Sahara Desert with 4 trillion solar panels and hundreds of ...