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 ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. What do you picture when you think of the Sahara?

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 ...

Photo of a (currently) dry, dusty cave south of the Atlas mountains. In the past, water was flowing down this large stalagmite formation. We date tiny pieces of stalagmite (~0.25g) to establish when ...

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 ...