Engineers once planned to flood Sahara Desert basins with seawater. François Roudaire and Donald Mackenzie proposed creating ...

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 ...

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.

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

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s water largely receded 6,000 years ago. Could it return? The Ennedi Natural ...

Photos: Simon Hughes/The Athletic, Getty Images; design: Dan Goldfarb Ali Radjel’s teeth are stained yellow and brown but he does not mind showing them because it gives him an opportunity to talk ...