Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

As the diamond supply dwindled, so the townspeople left in droves with possessions and homes completely abandoned. By 1956, ...

Africa is the second-driest inhabited continent after Australia and as such, provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern ...

Africa's largest natural arch is located deep in the remote Sahara Desert, on the Ennedi Plateau in Chad, and reaching it is ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

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.

Twenty-two are African languages, among them Ga (745,000 speakers in Ghana), Tshivenda (1.3 million in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique), and Wolof (8 million in Senegal).

The photo comes from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus visible-light camera, and depicts the first snowfall recorded in the massive African desert in 37 years. The snow-covered area ...

"We were able to reconstruct, within two or three degrees, what a field biologist observed in the middle of the Australian and African deserts more than 50 years ago," Professor Kearney said.