Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not a dry land; it had rivers, lakes, and lush grasslands. This period is known as the African Humid Period. Ancient rock paintings and archaeological ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.

Parts of the Sahara Desert are turning green due to influx of heavy rain Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert.

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

Africa is the second-largest continent in the world and covers an area more than three times that of the United States, with one country being a whopping nine times bigger than the UK.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

The before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the world's largest hot desert, taken in 2023 and 2024. In the first photo, the terrain is mostly dry.

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

Sahara Desert in Africa was once full of trees, had rivers, but became desert due to… Ancient rock paintings and archaeological findings support the claim that life once thrived in Sahara.