A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

Decades after its demise in the wild, a resilient herbivore has bounced back and could form the vanguard in the battle to ...

Of everything that we did in Morocco, spending a night in a Sahara desert luxury camp (aka going glamping in the Sahara) was EASILY the experience I was most excited for. Riding camels through the ...

(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 ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

Libya’s Great Man-Made River Project was conceived in the late 1960s after the discovery of large fossil aquifers in the southern part of the country during oil exploration in 1953. These deposits ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world. Satellites recently ...

Flora tends to sprout quickly once the typically dry landscape gets water. One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the ...

A soldier returned from the Sahara desert in 1916 with a wild story about a meteorite that dwarfed all others. Over 100 years ...

NIAMEY, July 16 (Reuters) - Niger plans to award oil exploration permits by the end of next month for a vast block under the Sahara desert it hopes will turn it into Africa's newest crude producer.

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 ...