(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human lineages started spreading outside Africa. This significant discovery has ...

A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

South of the Algerian town of Tindouf on the border with Western Sahara are five refugee camps. The camps are home to the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara and are administered by their freedom ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is forbidding. The sand stretches past ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is shocked to hear about the reported deaths of 44 desperate migrants and refugees in the Sahara Desert this week - including women and children. Survivor accounts ...

A large dust cloud from the Sahara Desert is approaching the southeastern U.S., covering Florida first. Dust clouds can cause vibrant sunsets and sunrises, and a cooling effect. Haboobs are formed by ...