Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient people cultivated fertile lands. However, we know how it all ended - today ...

The Sahara was already on its way to becoming a desert. Due to natural cycles, the area was losing moisture in the air. However, the loss of grasses due to overgrazing sped up the process. Plants ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles of ...