Three flat-topped hills rising between 1,000 and 1,300 feet above the desert floor in southern Mauritania caught an astronaut ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren ...

A recent study has found an unexpected benefit from the undisputed king of the renewable energy sector as solar panels are ...

A new book features the unpublished photos from the Magnum Photo co-founder's 1957 and 1958 expeditions through North and East Africa.

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may have played an active role in its ...