A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj volcanic field interspersed with patches of golden sand.

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... that our planet experiences as a result ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...

When you think of places that are perfectly suited for solar energy, deserts often come to mind. After all, these areas ...

Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover ...

I now realise how naïve that was. Like every ecosystem on Earth, the Sahara is a beautiful and delicate balance of nature. Desert ecosystems host surprisingly high biodiversity and, because they ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over ... lines that intersect Earth's tectonic plates, because this is where the planet's crust is weakest and ...