The Numbers Don't Lie About Desert Growth The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new ...

The Sahara’s spread is now established. Its sands are on the march. The desert is growing, thanks to climate change. In the last century the region of the Sahara technically defined as desert has ...

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn't always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you'll find it was actually quite wet, ...

When you think about weather and the big storms that batter the North Country, you probably don't think of the Sahara Desert in North Africa. But... Jul 04, 2017 — When you think about weather and the ...

The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power – the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in ...

Researchers have analyzed dust deposited off the coast of west Africa over the last 240,000 years, and found that the Sahara, and North Africa in general, has swung between wet and dry climates every ...

Earth’s largest hot desert, the Sahara, is getting bigger, a new study finds. It is advancing south into more tropical terrain in Sudan and Chad, turning green vegetation dry and soil once used for ...

The desert, which is roughly the size of the United States, has grown by about 10% in the last century, in large part thanks to climate change. BySamia Bouzid Friday, March 30, 2018 NOVA NextNOVA Next ...

Activists are criticizing the British government for excluding Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco since 1975, from the U.N. climate summit in Scotland. Meanwhile, Morocco is counting renewable energy ...