The US has ruled out a referendum on independence for Western Sahara, and during his first time in office, President Donald ...

In the heart of the Sahara, where the routes to Sudan and Libya cross, the Chadian city of Amdjarass has been transformed this week into an open-air celebration of desert culture. "I haven't got the ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human ...

Every so often, storms in the Sahara Desert send dust across the Atlantic. Suddenly, orange skies and stale, dusty winds can blanket streets with fine sand. But did you know that Saharan dust still ...

Only 0.15% of a genome can be enough to redraw a map of human ancestry. Herders who lived when the Sahara had wetlands and ...

In its media coverage of the Western Sahara issue, El País and other media, persists in addressing the conflict with the same habitual bias ...

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