Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

110 million years ago, the bizarre Nigersaurus walked the lush environment in what is now Niger's Sahara Desert. It was a ...

While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took a look at how ...

But have you ever wondered what plants and animals live in a desert and how they survive there? This is the Sahara. The largest desert on Earth! Wow! It looks like it hardly ever rains here.

The scientists modelled what would happen if 9 million sq km of the Sahara desert was covered in renewable ... precipitation and plant growth occurs. "Wind farms increase surface roughness and ...

The loss of forests has become a pressing issue across Africa as the Sahara Desert continues to creep ... countries launched in 2007 that aims to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line across ...