The winners of the Travel Photographer Of The Year contest are a gorgeous visual journey through our changing planet and its inhabitants.

In October 2023, Zhang brought Juncao grass seeds to Mauritania from a field in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. He conducted comparative experiments on irrigation, fertilization, planting ...

Discover how the vast expanses of the Sahara are being transformed into colossal hubs of solar energy. This feature explores the cutting-edge solar power plants sprawling across the desert landscape, ...

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square ...

Discover The Strange Climate of the Gobi Desert, a unique landscape where scorching summers meet freezing winters. Learn why it's called a cold desert, how it was formed, and how it compares to the ...

The use of solar ovens by Saharan nomads greatly minimizes their environmental impact by removing the necessity for wood or ...

Researchers documented the first spotted hyena in Egypt for 5,000 years after it was hit with a pickup truck for killing ...

Oh the Sahara Desert! Would it be like in films ... The red canyon in Morocco As we zigzagged along the mountain roads, the landscape changed from colourful rocks, to beige desert dotted with ...

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

Between 1.2 and 0.9 million years ago, the landscape of ... indicating a dry, desert-like environment. This evidence aligns with palaeoclimate models suggesting the Sahara-like conditions extended ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert landscape once considered off limits before Homo sapiens came along.