The Sahara Desert is growing, causing big problems for people living nearby. In the Sahel and West Africa, farming is key for survival. But, as the desert spreads, land for farming gets less ...

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

They can live their whole lives in the hottest and ... a daunting prospect as we set out into the vastness of the Sahara Desert. Yet with hundreds and hundreds of miles of golden sand stretching ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.

Its bite can lead to paralysis or death without antivenom. The African Lion, powerful and fast, is one of the desert’s top predators. A lion’s attack can be fatal to both prey and humans.

Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ... Mattingly's team have shown they were sedentary people living off oasis agriculture.

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...