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

NASA scientists said that the historic event was triggered by a cyclone and similar storms are expected to occur in the ...

A new paper reveals what lies ahead for the fastest-warming region on Earth. In 2024, the global average air temperature ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

with increased precipitation occurring 2,000 years earlier in southern compared to northern Sahara regions, as well as ending 700 years earlier, which would have narrowed the Sahara Desert.