The Sahara Desert swallows 1.5 million hectares of land every year, and Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative has barely made ...

(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models show the ...

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.

Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

New dinosaurs by the dozen fill two large shipping containers poised to depart Niger for Africa’s coast and then travel by ship across the Atlantic destined for my Fossil Lab at the University of ...

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate. Reading time 2 minutes Behold Sebkha el Melah, an ephemeral lake in Algeria, ...

African nations are fighting climate change with an 8,000 kilometer long Great Green Wall meant to combat the desertification of the Sahel region, home to over 100 million people. Spanning the entire ...

Seas of sand form the core of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert. Our expedition caravan wound slowly between dunes, probing for terrain hard enough to get us to our end goal — wind-swept rock ...

From Morocco’s untraveled Memory Road to Tunisia’s Sahara camps, North Africa offers journeys rich in culture, history, and landscapes. Travelers can immerse themselves in Amazigh traditions, Roman ...

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...