However, there are many places on the planet where people cannot physically afford to have an unlimited supply of clean water. One of such places is the arid Sahara desert. Today, water is ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

These wild swings happen because of the desert’s dry air and sandy terrain. Unlike humid regions, where water vapour traps heat overnight, the Sahara’s atmosphere has almost no moisture.

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 ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and ... Food and water are becoming scarcer ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places ... During a period from about 14,500 to 5,000 years ago, it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life.

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...