told Live Science. But now larger portions of the Sahara are being inundated, including areas further north where it's usually drier, Armon added. You may like La Niña is dead — what that means ...

A vast waterless sea where life claws for purchase in the shifting sands. But it wasn't always that way, and it won't be forever. You could say the Sahara is just going through a little dry spell.

As the Sahara dust plume travels across the Atlantic Ocean and moves into the southeastern United States, the Mississippi ...

DNA revealed the two mummified women were from never-before-seen isolated populations living during the African Humid Period, when the now-inhospitable Sahara was a humid and lush savanna.

“If that were the case, nothing could live here. But it only rains a total of five days a year.” The Algerian Sahara is also home to several animals like the desert fox, wild sheep, jackal and ...

The rain could cause significant short-term changes for the animals living in the Sahara, including changes to the water quality and soil conditions. Usually, the Sahara gets less than one inch of ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn’t mean it’s free of that modern scourge of the environment – the rubbish humanity discards. In southern Morocco, volunteers ...

British foreign minister David Lammy said on Sunday that Morocco's autonomy plan for the territory of Western Sahara was the ...

I got to live and she died. “One of the last things she did before she was re-diagnosed was she trekked the Sahara desert.” Mrs Scully was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 ...

During the African Humid Period, also known as the Green Sahara, this region was inhabited by a human lineage that remained largely isolated, without a direct genetic relationship to populations from ...

File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 and a third time in 2018.