Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

Tunisia is a north African country brimming with hidden treasures, faded imperial grandeur, and expanses of desert. When Tunisia features on Mediterranean travel itineraries it is usually as a ...

Torrential downpours hit North Africa's normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend, causing flooding that killed more than a dozen people in Morocco and Algeria and destroyed homes and ...

Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, ... "Our findings suggest that while early North African populations were largely isolated, ...

It was not until the Sahara Desert became a green savannah 14,500 years ago that the group mixed with humans moving in from other regions of Africa and Asia. PhD student Nada Salem, who led the study ...

Saharan dust reaches the U.S. after being carried across the Atlantic Ocean by trade winds from the North African desert. The dust is typically lifted into the atmosphere by strong storms ...