One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape. Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of ...

Rare snowfall has transformed the golden dunes of northern Algeria into a stunning winter landscape. Cold air from Europe ...

ASD-1 is an example stalagmite used in our study, from a cave found by Dr Julia Barrott during her 2010 fieldwork. We are careful to work with samples that are already broken from natural processes, e ...

Jasper Knight does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of years of erosion, not meteorite impacts. Captured from the International ...

I went glamping for the first time in the Sahara Desert with two kids and had an amazing time. Not even the sub-zero temperatures and minimal amenities ruined the beautiful views. After this ...

The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction through captive breeding. Conservationists hope it could help slow the spread of the Sahara Desert. When Marie Petretto and John Newby ...

The Sahara desert is the world's largest non-polar desert, covering a huge amount of north Africa, and is without doubt one ...