In a stunning twist of nature, one of the world's driest and most unforgiving landscapes, the Sahara Desert, has experienced an unprecedented flood. Torrential rainfall in September has filled ...

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet again. Coincidence? Of course not ...

Incidentally, L’Invasion de la mer, Jules Verne’s novel, [spoiler alert ahead] ends with a massive earthquake that floods the Sahara far beyond the engineers’ calculations, wiping out the Tuareg.

It's a surreal image left by the heavy rains that fell in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

Republican-controlled US House to try again on Trump tax cuts bill The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will try again on Thursday to pass a measure to move forward on extending ...

The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study ...

Globally, extreme weather forced more people from their homes than any other year since 2008, which had widespread floods and fires. Did climate change play a role in these extreme events?

The Sahara Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, has not always been as arid as it is today. Prehistoric evidence of wetlands in the Sahara points to wetter periods in the past, but ...