A recent image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) has captured a curious sight atop the Emi Koussi volcano, ...

After decades of a self-reliant policy, the Algerian government is now moving forward with a comprehensive strategy to revive ...

From orbit, Emi Koussi’s dramatic caldera and lava-scarred slopes hint at its fiery past, while dried lakebeds and erosion ...

Desert stargazing offers a chance to some of the clearest night skies on Earth. With little light pollution and vast expanses ...

(‘OK?”) asks Baba Atanof as a tourist struggles to get her leg over a large rock on a steep ascent in the Algerian Sahara Desert. Fighting jelly legs and vertigo, she can barely answ ...

Desert hikes are an adventurous challenge, and trekkers love to explore the vast expanses under the sun's glare ...

"That," Mattingly notes, "is an awful lot of people in the hyperarid landscape of the central Sahara." An archaeologist at the University of Leicester, he's become a slave to the desert ...

The Sahara is very likely the ... change across North Africa from the hyperarid desert it is today to a nearly completely vegetated landscape dotted with large and small lakes during the early ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid ... unlike today’s arid desert landscape,” said archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...

Located in the Sahara Desert, Tassili n'Ajjer National ... has long struggled to attract tourists to its desert landscape. But it's changing now, with the Algerian government rolling out a master ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...