Inspired by this beetle and ancient fog collection systems from places like Chile's Atacama Desert, the Sahara Forest Project was born. Their vision? To transform deserts into thriving green spaces.

Millions of years ago, the Sahara was a green oasis covered in trees and grassland. So how did it become world's biggest hot desert ... covered in equatorial rain forest. Chemical weathering ...

Ancient human remains were found ... The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape we see today —28,000-year ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

When we planned this short camel trek across the Sahara’s northwestern ... Maghrebi towns such as Rissani, an ancient Saharan caravan staging post where desert tribes mingle.

They were an urbanized society that established themselves in the desert, even though they had ... However, unlike Persia, aquifers in the Sahara are not recharged by snow melt, making it an ...

What is this whale skeleton doing in the Egyptian Sahara Desert? This part of the Sahara ... (calm music) - [Narrator] This is the biggest ancient whale graveyard known on Earth.

Out in the Sahara Desert, in one of the most inhospitable ... from the atmosphere per hectare per year than a typical European forest. In an email, Fatna Ikrame El Fanne, an environmental engineer ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was ... making this pioneering ancient DNA study all ...