Nestled in northern and northwestern China and southern Mongolia, the Gobi Desert is one such anomaly. This expansive and ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

Desertification turns fertile land into desert, harming ecosystems and human lives. In the Sahara, poor land management, climate change, and bad farming practices cause this. Since 1920 ...

The Sahel, a semiarid region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, has long been a focal point and an environmental issue .

This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

In the heart of the Sahara Desert, where endless dunes meet rocky ... Despite the surrounding desert, it holds water year-round. As the climate shifted thousands of years ago, the region dried ...

We recall the catastrophic fires in Maui almost two years ago, then the horde of unusually violent hurricanes trashing ...