The before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the ... the U.S. from the Atlantic Ocean. The most recent was Tropical Storm Gordon, which has weakened into ...

Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a cyclone brought a deluge of rain to northern Africa that drenched swathes of the ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya.

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara ... of endless desert. Long-abandoned oil-drilling equipment. In such stark images you feel ...

It's a surreal image left by the heavy rains that fell in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara ... as Nasa images have shown. So, the old desert lakes will ...

Photograph by Simon Urwin Eighty percent of Algeria is desert, but contrary to popular ... then, as the Sahara dried, images of camels appeared, including those depicting the trans-Saharan trade ...

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look ... studying one of several rocks Bagouma presented to him on a recent evening outside his family’s tents. From a small bag ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...

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 ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...