An international team of climate scientists has found that dust brought to parts of Europe in 2022 from the Saharan desert ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

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

Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one such anomaly. This expansive and ...

New research suggests that the earliest dinosaurs may have originated in equatorial regions of Gondwana, encompassing the ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...

Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing ...

We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing ...

The desert is one of the harshest environments to live in. It can be extremely hot during the day and freezing cold at night. There is sparse vegetation and little shade. The terrain is often rough, ...

It was a period of time marked by dramatic climate shifts. One can imagine the challenges ... which today only grow thousands of kilometers north in the Sahara Desert. This suggests that desert-like ...

But around a million years ago, the climate dried up and the trees vanished. The landscape turned to a Mojave-like desert shrub land — an extremely arid place that seemed inhospitable for early ...