From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...

Terraforming the Sahara Desert could green a massive area; what are the potential environmental consequences? Donald Trump Says Americans May 'Give Up Your Religion' if Taxes Go Up Hikers discover ...

A wide swath of eastern Morocco is part of the Sahara Desert, shared with neighboring Algeria and several other African nations including Libya, Chad, Niger, Mali and Egypt. We arrived in the heat ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment—the rubbish humanity discards. In southern Morocco, volunteers are ...

In the middle of the 19 th century, the German explorer Heinrich Barth discovered prehistoric Saharan rock sculptures and engravings while traveling through the Sahara Desert in North Africa. Barth, ...

Nearby ocean temperatures rose, expanding seasonal ranges and making regions from North Africa to Central Asia more arid. The researchers believe that this event was the final trigger for the ...

The French Development Agency (AFD) said it would invest 150 million euros ($167 million) in Western Sahara in 2025-2026, following Paris' recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed desert ...

The new location of the Sahara tent, which has moved a considerable amount southwest on the festival grounds in the last couple of years, is now up against a grassy hill. And that hill has become ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

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.

South Korea’s Ganghwa County, whose closest point is just 1.8km (1.1 mile) from North Korea, is creating a noise map to help residents cope with blaring loudspeaker broadcasts from the North.