The Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert, offers a unique landscape filled with adventure opportunities ...

A Sahara Desert tour comes with its own challenges from heat, sun, and a lack of water. There are also a whole host of ...

Africa is home to some of the most iconic deserts in the world. From the towering dunes of the Namib to the salt flats of the ...

Egypt's project to reclaim deserts in the south, called "Toshka", would expand Egypt's farmland by about 40 percent by 2017, using about five billion cubic metres of water a year.

The Eastern Sahara, a region the size of Western Europe that extends from Egypt into Libya, Sudan and Chad, is the world's largest warm, dry desert. Rainfall in the desert's centre averages less ...

Time Peake: You can really see how thin the Earth’s atmosphere is in this picture. Credits: ESA/NASA Larger image ...

In the heart of Egypt's Sahara Desert, an extraordinary site known as Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, has unveiled fossils proving that whales once had feet and toes. This UNESCO World Heritage site ...

An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated fossil site in Egypt's Sahara Desert. The ...