The Ancient Art of Sand Navigation Traditional Berber caravans have navigated Morocco's desert regions for over a thousand ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may ...

The Namib Desert is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of the African nation of Namibia.

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

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The semi-arid Kalahari Desert stretches over parts of Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana. It’s an ecological wonderland that isn’t like your average super dry desert. It gets a lot more rain, which ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Libyan desert glass (LDG) to a meteorite crash, and published their findings in the American Mineralogist. Once described as a “physical and geologic enigma,” ...

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 ...

BLUFF, Utah — In February 2020, Dave Herrero drove into the canyon country here in southeastern Utah to visit a slice of land that was up for sale — a 320-acre ranch that stretched deep into the ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September. The Sahara ...