Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

Terraforming the Sahara Desert could green a massive area; what are the potential environmental consequences?

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Maybe spread their bandanas out on the grass, sit on them and rock out from a seated position ... Rebecca DeWoody of Palm ...

Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio packed even more of a punch than we expected, and now thousands of more people are headed to the California desert for Weekend 2.

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham ... and showed that Arabia—and likely the Sahara and the eastern deserts—had been humid for long periods.

Native to the harsh desert environments of the Sahara, this critically endangered species has developed a range of strategies to cope with the extreme conditions of its habitat. As climate change and ...

You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The vast majority burns up as it ...

Of the few space rocks that fall to Earth, most end up in the ocean. The rest mostly go unnoticed, blending in with other stones. But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies ... However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not ...