A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - * ...

A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River then ...

Egypt's Whale Valley, or "Wadi Al-Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Festus Adegbola, a UB PhD student who is using remote-sensing technology to monitor biodiversity from the air, has been awarded the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology ...

The Sahara in North Africa is the largest hot desert on the planet, spanning an area of around 3.6 million sq miles (9.2 million sq km). Over time, the desert has slowly pushed itself southward, ...

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 million years.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released Africa's first high-resolution rice distribution map, featuring a resolution ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.