The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Joe examines an ambitious climate intervention—transforming the Sahara Desert with 4 trillion solar panels and hundreds of ...

The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change based on its position relative to the sun. This relationship means that ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Mineral deposits in limestone caves in Saudi Arabia show that the now arid Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced increased ...

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

One impact of climate change is increased tropical storms. The southeast of Africa experiences tropical cyclones - for ...

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world's largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BC. Members of our species Homo ...

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, ...