This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

A recent study led by Italian researchers Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde and Corrado Malanga of the ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the sunset call to prayer, the site guardian popped his head into the Temple of Amun and said he would ...

In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the “Valley of the ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...