The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

Seven thousand years ago, the Sahara was a lush savanna where hippos, crocodiles, elephants, and giraffes roamed across land now buried under shifting dunes. Paleoclimate records and satellite data ...

The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study was ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world. It gets just 3 inches of precipitation per year—one-tenth of the amount of Chicago's rain, sleet and snow. "Changing rainfall patterns will ...

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The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

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 ...

Climate change is expensive, deadly and preventable, according to the new National Climate Assessment, the most sweeping, sophisticated federal analysis of climate change compiled to date. Released ...