The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland researchers. This represents ...

Vast clouds of dust from the Sahara desert are moving across the Atlantic Ocean and could make for darkened skies and poor air quality in the Caribbean and US southeast in the coming days, according ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape. Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of ...

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate. Reading time 2 minutes Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, ...

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 ...

(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

The Amazon rainforest exists in part due to an atmospheric pipeline of dust from the Sahara Desert. And if that pipeline were to dry up or be diverted, massive biological changes could occur across ...

The Garamantian Empire survived in the extreme conditions of the Sahara Desert for hundreds of years using a unique tunnel system for moving water, according to new research. Photo from Carlos Leret, ...