With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Read more: The Most Dangerous Spots To Swim In The World The Sahara Desert encompasses several underrated countries in Northern Africa filled with natural wonders, and Chad's Ennedi Plateau ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in ... Sign up The largest increase in greenness this year was in southern Chad, southern Sudan and Eritrea; parts of Mali ...

Its dry stone and mud mortar homes, mosques and libraries store some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate ...

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

The initiative will look to increase the amount of arable land in the region bordering Africa’s Sahara Desert known as the ... Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara ... North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is ...

The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which lies immediately to the south of the Sahara Desert and which extends across most of Africa. The main causes of desertification include: ...