A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet ...

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences that officials have warned about. Trees are withering, wells are ...

By integrating climate science, meteorology, remote sensing, and hydrology, this research bridges a critical knowledge gap and provides a framework for future studies on Sahara Desert hydrology ...

The Sahara Desert has not always been as dry as it is ... A new study, published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, combined climate science, meteorology, and hydrology to examine how intense ...