The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions ...

Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is forbidding. The sand stretches past ...

The scimitar-horned oryx has been brought back from extinction through captive breeding. Conservationists hope it could help ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world. Satellites recently ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Odds are, if you venture to the Sahara Desert you already have a sense of adventure. You are also likely prepared for the scorching sun and ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

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