In our modern day of safe cities and designated hiking trails, very few places seem as unsafe to us as the middle of the ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Residents of modern megacities are accustomed to the uninterrupted water supply to their apartments. In such comfortable ...

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

A new kind of window may soon help solve one of the world’s biggest problems—how to get clean drinking water to people who don’t have it. Right now, over 2.

Dust from the Sahara Desert could bring hazy skies to North Texas in early July.

The desert is getting too hot for the saguaro cactus Arizona's saguaro cactus has evolved to thrive in the extreme climate of the Sonoran Desert, but after decades of rising heat, even these ...

Los Angeles was built near a desert. And it takes a colossal infrastructure to transport water to the city. But large-scale construction isn’t the only way the city has quenched its thirst ...

The impacts of Resolution Copper's water use would be severe. And thanks to Arizona law, there's not much we can do about them.