Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid ... This sharp contrast between day and night owes to the desert's lack of moisture, preventing any substantial heat retention after sundown.

As night fell over the Sahara ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded. Durant et al.

David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations ... The Libyan Sahara holds the world's heat record (136°F) and can chill the bones on a winter night. Ibrahim al-Koni, Libya's ...

Some can be dry and very hot, but some can be very cold. The Sahara desert is extremely hot during the day and cold at night but others, like the Gobi desert, can be a lot colder. A hot desert is ...

She will face 40-degree heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night, as she spends five days in the desert. Ms Albutt, whose doctoral research is on the links between trauma and ...