Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

In 2024, annual average global air temperatures surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for the first time, ...

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The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change based on its position relative to the sun. This relationship means that ...

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

Radioactive dust left over from Cold War Nuclear experiments is still wafting through European air, new research finds.

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The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara ...