Mega wind and solar farms could turn the Sahara Desert green for the first time in 4,500 years. iStock . This would prompt quite significant changes in the local environment—massive wind farms ...

Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

In the more southern Sudanese Sahara, lush vegetation, hearty trees, and permanent freshwater lakes persisted over millennia. There were even large rivers, such as the Wadi Howar, once the largest ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Today, the Sahara Desert is defined by undulating sand dunes, unforgiving sun, and oppressive heat. But just 10,000 years ago, it was lush and verdant.

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t. CNN values your feedback 1.

Despite its current harsh conditions, the Sahara Desert wasn't always a vast, lifeless expanse. Between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, the region was home to lakes and lush vegetation. 2 The recent ...

Wind and solar power plants in Sahara could turn desert green. Renewable infrastructure projects have potential to alter local climate for the better, scientists suggest. Josh Gabbatiss.

Researchers developed climate models based on the temperature, precipitation and vegetation changes that would occur if the entirety of the Sahara – 3,500,000 square miles – was covered with ...

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn’t always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you’ll find it was actually quite ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t. CNN values your feedback 1.