The Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire ...

The African humid period reveals how northern Africa was dramatically wetter during the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when much of the Sahara desert was covered by grasses, trees and ...

New research from the University of Illinois Chicago suggests the Sahara Desert, long defined by relentless heat and extreme dryness, could receive up to 75% more rainfall by the end of the century.

The Sahara Desert is one of the most hostile environments on the planet because it combines several physical extremes at the ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

(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 study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...