North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert, located in northern Africa. The climate is hot and dry, with temperatures recorded as high as 50°C.

If you didn’t know the context, pictures of the Sahara Desert from the edge of space could easily be mistaken for the surface of Mars instead. The western edge of the African desert is caked in ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara ... North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is ...

Many migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of a better life in Europe Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger ...

region covers the enormous area extending from the Atlantic coast of Africa to the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia and from the Mediterranean littoral to the southern boundaries of ...