This makes soil and water availability worse. The “Great Green Wall” aims to stop desertification and help local people. The Sahara Desert is growing, causing big problems for people living ...

The use of solar ovens by Saharan nomads greatly minimizes their environmental impact by removing the necessity for wood or ...

Saharan sand contains radioactive isotopes of plutonium and cesium that can be transported from the great African desert to ...

Students could be asked to make notes on the type of crops grown in the Sahara, the animals people there eat and what aid they receive from worldwide charity organisations. Additional research ...

By the Swedish Council Communist group Folkmakt, this text talks about the struggle of the Polisario Front in Western Sahara. Originally published in "Folkmakt, No. 2" ...

The desert’s only permanent river is the ... Despite its extreme conditions, around two million people live in the Sahara. Many are nomads who move with the seasons, while others live in ...

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

A dementia specialist from Kidderminster is set to take on a gruelling 100km trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of her mum.