The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of ...

Acacia, gum and palm trees once shielded the neighborhood from encroaching dunes, but they’ve gradually disappeared. The ...

The Sahara Desert is renowned for its barren ... Dead Vlei translates to dead marsh as the area used to have a marsh with an acacia tree forest. However, due to climate change, the river got ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

In the vast land of northern Bauchi State, where the encroaching Sahara Desert threatens livelihoods, an ambitious ...

The silver ant is the Sahara’s true desert survivor. Snow in the Atlas mountains Deep snow covers cedar trees in the Atlas mountains, a rare view of North Africa.

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold with scarce resources.

rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences that officials have warned about. Trees are withering, wells are ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...