Desertification turns fertile land into desert, harming ecosystems and human lives. In the Sahara, poor land management, climate change, and bad farming practices cause this. Since 1920 ...

By Aubree Ross Recent images from Merzouga, a small desert town in southeastern ... What are your thoughts on how climate change is affecting traditionally dry areas like the Sahara?

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The climate has been in a warming trend for more than 200 years and eventually more places may become unlivable to humans like we see in the Sahara desert and portions of ...