We traveled to Africa to visit Algeria, where we saw the Sahara Desert, drank foamy tea, ate bread and experienced the change ...

New research has uncovered how powerful storms occasionally drench parts of theSahara Desert, forming short-lived lakes and ...

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, issued an unexpected recommendation to resolve the 50-year conflict: partition ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

Algeria has recalled its ambassador from Madrid in protest at Spain’s decision to back a Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. “The Algerian authorities were very surprised by the ...

Algeria, which backs the Polisario movement seeking independence in the Western Sahara, had in August last year broke off diplomatic ties with Rabat over "hostile acts". Morocco controls 80 ...

David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes us to prehistory. They are time travelers who use four-wheel-drive vehicles to navigate the Sahara ...

Last year Algeria recalled its ambassador to Paris after France recognised Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara. Algeria backs the Polisario Front that is seeking an independent state.