The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more ...

Between September 7 and 8, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. The newly formed ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

indicate that dust from the Sahara Desert, transported over hundreds of thousands of kilometers by winds over the tropical Atlantic Ocean to South America, help form the clouds responsible for 80% of ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

Human communities have pulsed here like the explosion of plants after a rare rain. When moist ... Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area that today includes northern South America and northern Africa’ ...

Most of the precipitation that fell in the lower elevations was rain, but higher ... which have seen recent snowfall deficits. The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert in the world and the ...

Most of the precipitation that fell in the lower elevations was rain, but higher ... referred to as the "Gateway to the Sahara" because it sits at an elevation of about 3,600 feet, between the vast ...