A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert settled over the Caribbean on Monday, as it made its way from Africa to the ...

A timeline of Sahara occupation [See Map]: 22,000 to 10,500 ... The end of the rains and return of desert conditions throughout the Sahara after 5,500 coincides with population return to the ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... "Our research challenges previous assumptions about North African population history and highlights the existence of a deeply rooted and long-isolated ...

Below is a distribution map of the hours of sunshine throughout ... there are 25 million people living in the Sahara Desert, but the low population density does not pose a major problem when ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and ... the estimated population of 135 million ...

Snowfall in a hot desert may seem a contradiction but ... but also because climate modelling effort has not focused on the Sahara, an area of low population. A key property of the Sahara is ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... it originated from an ancestral North African population. This source, newly documented at ...

Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... previous assumptions about North African population history and highlights the existence of a deeply ...

Sahara Desert ... Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared around 5,000 years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ancestry persist among ...