Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explores a land recovery project along the northern border of Senegal with the UN ...

Legislation designating the Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization would send a strong signal as the regional ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth of vegetation, and rising temperatures since February 2025 speeding their ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, seen from space. The lake formed after a cyclone walloped parts of northern Africa in September, causing huge amounts of rain in the Sahara ...

We identified why north Africa greened approximately every 21,000 years over the past eight million years. ... Our results demonstrate the sensitivity of the Sahara Desert to changes in past climate.

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

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 ...

A 400-billion euro ($554 billion) project linking solar power produced in the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa is a "win-win" for both continents and could also promote ...