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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

VALENCIA — Sahara means “desert” in Arabic. A Sahrawi, then, is someone from the desert. That’s why the people of Western Sahara are known today as Sahrawi — both those still under Moroccan rule and ...

Flora tends to sprout quickly once the typically dry landscape gets water. One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...