Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. Over ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

indicate that dust from the Sahara Desert, transported over hundreds of thousands of kilometers by winds over the tropical Atlantic Ocean to South America, help form the clouds responsible for 80% of ...

Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to ...

The first dinosaurs may have evolved near the equator, and not in the southwest of the supercontinent Gondwana, as ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

The bounty of rainfall will likely help refill the large groundwater aquifers beneath the desert that are relied ... says the presence of water in the Sahara could profoundly alter weather ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

A desert is a dry, barren landscape that receives very little rainfall—typically less than 250 mm (10 inches) per year. Deserts can be hot, like the Sahara, or cold, like Antarctica. They often ...