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 ...

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

An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

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

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 ...