(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 ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive ...

As part of the fight against global climate change Israel’s Foreign Ministry hosted agricultural experts from Africa who are fighting a war against desertification in Africa’s Sahara Desert. Some of ...

The analysis of sediment cores from the Mediterranean Sea combined with Earth system models tells the story of major environmental changes in North Africa over the last 160,000 years. Large parts of ...

By the end of this century, typical daily temperatures in West Africa will be even higher than those registered on the hottest days of the year at present, according to a new study by climate ...