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

Every now and again, the Sahara Desert in North Africa will kick up a storm and spread dust clouds across Europe and other ...

The use of solar ovens by Saharan nomads greatly minimizes their environmental impact by removing the necessity for wood or ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

In the heart of the Sahara Desert, where endless dunes meet rocky plateaus, an unexpected refuge exists: the Guelta of Matmata in Mauritania. This remote oasis is home to one of the last groups of ...

"That," Mattingly notes, "is an awful lot of people in the hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

The Sahara is very likely the ... change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today to a nearly completely vegetated landscape dotted with large and small lakes during the early ...

Sarah Dawson and a team of 20 fundraisers walked 100km (62 miles) across the Sahara Desert A veterinary nurse ... Sarah Dawson Sarah Dawson said the landscape "changed by the hour" as they covered ...

Hot deserts are found near the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The largest hot desert is the Sahara in Africa which spans the whole width of the continent.