Once thought resistant to invasion, regional deserts are losing native plants to aggressive weedy species like Saharan ...

Ancient genomes from Libya’s Takarkori shelter have provided new insights into the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

Have you ever stood before a landscape so breathtaking, so ancient, that you felt the weight of millions of years pressing ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

Painted ladies are the ultramarathoners of the butterfly world—even more so than monarchs. Scientists have long known about ...

Mummies discovered in modern-day Libya have been found to have no matching DNA with modern humans, leading to more questions than answers.

Paris (AFP) – Electricity consumption by data centres will more than double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence applications that will create new challenges for energy security and CO2 ...

French Finance Minister Eric Lombard trimmed the government's 2025 growth forecast on Wednesday as a global trade war escalates, but said that the government aimed to stick to its deficit ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ... rex and ...