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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...