In fact, it only takes up .2% of the whole Sahara Desert and yet is THE primary source of all this dust--hundreds of thousands of tons of it every year! You can see on the map below the exact ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning to areas north and south of the Sahara. But what determines whether some ...

Another show of the kind will be even more unlikely when the lending museums get full reports on some of the difficulties. In high (4,825 ft.), dry Salisbury the humidity at night falls as low as 30%.

A map of what the Sahara was like 8,000 to 11,000 years ago, revealing rivers, lakes, swamps and fan-shaped deposits where rivers emptied out. The dots indicate where various kinds of pottery were ...

Nonetheless, the sub-Sahara’s ongoing development disaster should command the attention of American policy-makers for at least three reasons: (1) The compelling humanitarian consequences of this ...

Thanks to Climate Change, the Sahara is Inching South. The desert, which is roughly the size of the United States, has grown by about 10% in the last century, in large part thanks to climate change.

Sub-Saharan Africa will be one of the fastest-growing regions of the world in 2011, thanks to surging demand both from abroad (from China and India in particular) and at home (fuelled by ...

Fish may have once swum across the Sahara, a finding that could shed light on how humanity made its way out of Africa, researchers said. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...