A snowstorm in the Sahara desert has turned the normally sandy landscape into what looks like arctic tundra after up to 16 inches fell on areas of Algeria Sunday. The freak occurrence—it is only the ...

This footage has been recorded by NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station regularly capture stunning images of our planet, leaving space lovers mesmerized.

The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of ...

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.

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright proposes a new angle for how the Sahara Desert came to be. Most studies prior lay the ...

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Compares the present-day Sahara with what has been found by archeologists. Demonstrates how the Sahara was formed and what the area might have been like before the ...