They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think about nature,” asks Aurora Radich, a nature therapist in northern ...

Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its Biomass satellite mission—marking a ...

“When there is no water, nothing green, the sand becomes very strong, a very fast enemy,” says Sbai. “It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction.

There’s more to Africa than safari and deserts. While cities like Marrakech, Accra and Johannesburg continue to bring in hundreds of thousands of international travelers every year, other urban ...

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy mass hit North America a week later.

A vast desert, filled with billions of tons of sandy soil and an area spanning four countries, is the world's largest continuous sand desert.

At just over 5.3 million square miles, the Sahara desert is the world's largest hot desert, but is still smaller than both the Antarctic and Arctic deserts (yep, the Arctic also is a desert).

Two years on, bank worker Mr Wilson said he is undertaking the four-and-a-half day, 100km trek in southern Morocco to prove to himself that he can “do anything”.

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

I brought some Sahara sand home and have it in a perfume bottle on my desk to remind me of my short time among the dunes. It’s the desert base camp to which I wish to return in Morocco.