Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a “desolate region totally uninhabited … in the dead center of ...

Geologist Stefan Kröpelin's expedition to the Sahara desert will skirt areas of political ... a 3,500-metre-tall active volcano in the vast uninhabited ... Isn’t the region plagued by ...

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 ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Every day, millions of microorganisms reach Spain from the Sahara Desert and the Sahel region -- by flying. Louis Pasteur demonstrated back in 1861 that germs can move through the air, but it was ...

As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world's weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region ...