With just over 1 inch of rain since last April, Borrego Springs and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park are feeling the effects.

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

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara ...

Analysis of Moroccan stalagmites reveals that the Sahara received increased rainfall between 8,700 and 4,300 years ago, ...

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are ...

Credit: Dr Julia Barrott. Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara Desert in the past. Researchers from the ...

Learn the key differences between weather and climate, their definitions, and real-world examples. This article breaks down ...

You might know that there is a desert in continental Croatia, far from the coastline. Did you know there's also an Istrian ...

The Sahara is the largest desert in the world—excluding Antarctica and the Arctic ... meaning that the Sahara was covered in vegetation, and rainfall was frequent. This condition persisted until ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished ... change the climate in this region: more rainfall, which will lead to a revival of ...

The results confirm that during the African Humid Period (AHP), the Sahara received considerably more rainfall than today.