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.
This study revisits perceptions about Africa’s agricultural input landscape, using data from more than 22,000 households and 62,000 plots in Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The resulting summer monsoonal rains nourish the landscape ... drainage basin is the largest of North Africa, draining runoff from the eastern Sahara, Ethiopian highlands and equatorial East ...
Its arid, barren landscape also makes it one of the driest places on the planet. Recently, near the border of Morocco and Algeria, the Sahara Desert ... vast areas of Africa during September.
Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse ... and survival of life across this previously comparatively barren landscape. More information: Marco Gaetani et al, Mid-Holocene climate ...