Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, ... Rainfall north of the equator in Africa typically increases from July through September as the West African Monsoon kicks into gear.

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

From lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts. The ...

The Sahara desert is one of the harshest, most inhospitable places on the planet, covering much of North Africa in some 3.6 million square miles of rock and windswept dunes.

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Before COVID-19 shut down travel, I led expeditions that discovered some 25 tons of rare fossils scattered across the Sahara Desert, in remote areas of the West African country of Niger. They were ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Desert dunes cast shadows around sunset in Lompoul, Senegal, on April 30, 2023. The small Senegalese desert is about 250 kilometers, or 155 miles, south of the Sahara. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff ...

West African legislators worried by climate change and soaring energy costs want regional leaders to back plans to harness sun and wind energy that experts say could bring electricity to some of ...

Dust that originated in the Sahara Desert made it into the Gulf of Mexico on June 25, 2020. Sahara dust can make it to Alabama, but it doesn't happen all that often.