The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals a unique group of people who thrived in the once-lush Sahara.

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

First deals include to Baltics (ACME), Benelux (Distri7), Eastern Europe (Prorom), ex-Yugoslavia (Karantanija), Indonesia (PT ...

Archaeologists excavated 1,200-year-old monumental stone graves in Djibouti and found evidence of the “rise of the nomad ...

We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

Cape Town has become the latest city to be flooded with anti-tourism sentiment, after fuming local activists condemned the influx of selfie-taking digital nomads. The South African capital has ...

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 ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has revealed new details about past rainfall patterns in the Sahara Desert. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the Institut ...

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...