Bottles, plastic bags, "there are all kinds", noted one helper who has joined the initiative cleaning up the edge of a ...

The top 5 largest deserts in the world aren't just hot and humid; rather, two out of the five have extreme cold situations ...

The Mauritania iron ore train has been running since 1963. It was built not for people, but for purpose — to carry wealth ...

In a remote village in Morocco's Zagora Province volunteers are on a mission to clean up the desert before it is buried under ...

Sicarius Hahni is a tiny but deadly spider that lives in arid, desert regions. Learn more about this sand spider and why it buries itself.

Deep in the heart of the Sahara Desert, scientists have discovered something that defies all logic — an ancient whale ...

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham ... and showed that Arabia—and likely the Sahara and the eastern deserts—had been humid for long periods.

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

Locals showcase the preparation of traditional bread baked in hot sand, often called ‘sand bread’ or ‘desert bread,’ during ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a ...

For thousands of years, the Sahara was more than just a desert: it was a thriving land of lakes, grasslands, and human life. Now, DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies has revealed a truth: a lost human ...