(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 ...

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

I went glamping for the first time in the Sahara Desert with two kids and had an amazing time. Not even the sub-zero temperatures and minimal amenities ruined the beautiful views. After this ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

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.

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

Animals can adapt to any environment – even a sandy, arid landscape like the Sahara Desert. The vast stretches of sand dunes, rare oases, and rugged mountains are home to fennec foxes, scorpions, and, ...

The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, November 2018. Jaw-dropping images taken from space shows a vast eye-shape gazing up ...

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 ...

Jaw-dropping images taken from space shows a vast eye-shape gazing up from the desert. The so-called Richat Structure was captured by an astronaut from 222 miles up on the International Space Station ...