Credit: Ben Lovett Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, supporting early herding societies. This rainfall, likely ...
File Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy In 1979, snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first known time. It fell a second time in 2016 and a third time in 2018.
Stretching across northern Chile and southern Peru, the Atacama is the driest non-polar desert on the planet. With its "Martian landscapes" and sprawling salt flats, the arid "geographical ...
Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...
Cholistan Institute of Desert Studies, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Shakarpur Campus, Shah Abdul-Latif University, Khairpur, Pakistan. The Islamia University of ...
It runs through the Sahara Desert in Niger, separating the Western Saharan flora from the Eastern Saharan flora. Despite the harsh conditions, the regions on either side of this line boast ...
SaharaReporters.com is an outstanding, groundbreaking news website that encourages citizen journalists to report ongoing corruption and government malfeasance in Africa. Using photos, text, and ...
Following a rocky two-track, the trail soon departs the “Sahara of the Suburbs” and ... into the floodplains of the Agua Fria River, desert flora, led by majestic saguaros, clutters runoff ...
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