The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

Desertification turns fertile land into desert, harming ecosystems and human lives. In the Sahara, poor land management, climate change, and bad farming practices cause this. Since 1920 ...

A new paper reveals what lies ahead for the fastest-warming region on Earth. In 2024, the global average air temperature ...

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to ...