(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The ...

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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 lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

Chance discoveries while traveling give another dimension to what’s been planned and researched. So often it’s the unexpected things that are best remembered and inspire a return visit. In 2024, I had ...

In a study supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, researchers from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland found that the Sahara ...

Whether it's archaeologists, or just some lads on the beach creating a hole mistaken for an asteroid impact, people can't help wondering what's underneath sand. The rest of this article is behind a ...

In this Monday, June 4, 2018 file photo, Nigerians and third-country migrants head towards Libya from Agadez, Niger. More than 80 African migrants were rescued on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020 after being ...

MOROCCO - JANUARY 01: Blue skies and drifting sand dunes in the Sahara Desert, Morocco. (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images) They say everything is bigger in Texas, but the stunning June heat records in ...