In October 2023, Zhang brought Juncao grass seeds to Mauritania from a field in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He ...

A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

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

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An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

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

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New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

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.

Ready to travel around the Sahara Desert with me? So far on my Adventure Morocco tour I’ve haggled in the medina in Marrakech, reached the top of the world in the Atlas Mountains, explored a real life ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth ...