Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of ...

When photographer Mohammed Almuntasir uploaded a YouTube video showing a sand cat in Libya, it kickstarted a quest to ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...

A ship, the Bom Jesus, disappeared 500 years ago and was found in a desert in southwest Africa with gold aboard.

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for plants and animals to thrive, but life always finds a way. Indeed, vegetation ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert on planet-crossing over 12 African countries with 3.6 million square miles. Its size is compared to the entire United ...

"The Illustrated Flora of Burkina Faso and Mali" is the first comprehensive documentation of the remarkable plant diversity in these two west African countries. In a recently published paper, a ...

A missing driver was found alive after spending five days stranded in the desert in sweltering 104-degree weather in a moment that's nothing short of a miracle. Marwan al-Bahji was found by rescue ...

To an American who met Mike Sadler in 1943 his most remarkable feature was his eyes. They were round and sky-blue, staring out of a sun-baked face grizzled with beard. They looked like the eyes of a ...