After a two-week break, the Basketball Africa League resumes play on Saturday in Dakar, Senegal, at 10:30 a.m. ET.

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

The cores contained traces of the plants that once grew there and the types of sediments produced by the climate, and showed that Arabia—and likely the Sahara and the eastern deserts—had been ...

However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

A Newport grandfather in his seventies has completed a 100km trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of his great grandson. At just five months old, Harley Hollylee-Steward was diagnosed with ...

In many ways, the story of Mauro Prosperi, an Italian pentathlete who got lost in the Saharan Desert, is one of how to survive extraordinary challenges and overcome the odds. In fact, the odds are ...

The fascinating North African beings are thought to have roamed the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago. Their genetic makeup was shockingly different to what scientists usually expect to find ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different ...

For thousands of years, the Sahara was more than just a desert: it was a thriving land of lakes, grasslands, and human life. Now, DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies has revealed a truth: a lost human ...