One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green ... by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... which brought a downpour of rain to regions that hardly receive any, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. "What's also fascinating is that normally ...

The majority of Earth's arid regions are located in areas beneath the descending parts of the Hadley circulation. "We know that 6,000 years ago, what is now the Sahara Desert was a rainy place ...

At the encroaching edge of the Sahara Desert, community tensions are tightly bound up with the search for water. Water has long been at the centre of conflict in the northern regions of Mali ...