Lying deep in the African desert sits the colourful and supersaturated hot springs of the world's 'hottest' town.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Libya's security authorities have recovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country's southeastern desert, ...

"We were able to reconstruct, within two or three degrees, what a field biologist observed in the middle of the Australian and African deserts more than 50 years ago," Professor Kearney said.

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-strick ...