The Sahara, the largest desert in the world, conceals beneath its sands massive deposits of fresh water. Just a few thousand years ago, it was a green land inhabited by humans and animals. The ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

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 ...

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological processes responsible for the filling of a normally dry lake in the northwestern ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

As climate change progresses, projections suggest an increase in rainfall intensity and frequency in the region.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.