A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

The Sahara, the largest desert in the world, conceals beneath its sands massive deposits of fresh water. Just a few thousand years ago, it was a green land inhabited by humans and animals.

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...

Below the arid surface of the great desert are huge natural reservoirs of water. These resources are now beginning to be studied and exploited for the benefit of the Saharan nations ...

A man was visiting Dores Beach in Scotland when he reportedly saw something in the water and took a photo — could it be the ...

Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent creatures such as lions, elephants, and rhinoceroses lived here. A funny thing happened when the most ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Fennec Foxes are the quintessential desert creature ... the scarcity of water, even the colours of the Sahara over millions of years – now risk being lost altogether in the space of a generation.

These findings suggest that projections of enhanced rainfall intensity and frequency in the Sahara could potentially reshape water availability in the desert. A new study supervised by Dr. Moshe ...