The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

China’s 3,050-km green belt encircles the Taklamakan Desert—equal in size to Germany—to block sandstorms and desert expansion with solar-powered vegetation. A renewable energy mega-project ...

Researchers from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ... The humans lived during the "African Humid Period," when the Sahara desert was green and dotted with lakes and streams.