Sahara Desert, the hottest in the world, received 16 inches snow last weekend

What explains the weather anomaly in the world's largest hot desert, which is also one of the driest places on earth?

Hydrogen from microbes

Hydrogen could soon be produced using light-sensitive bacteria

Ants forage at 'safe' temperatures

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Why is snowfall in the Sahara getting more frequent?

There are speculations that rare snowfall in the Sahara desert this time is due to climate change

Need to restore 10 million hectares a year to prevent desertification in Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization presented a map of restoration potential along Africa's Great Green Wall

Changing perceptions

Experts say changes in the Earth's orbit may have led to the formation of the Sahara desert

Large quartz dust particles found in the middle of the North Atlantic

The mere existence of these particles at this location cannot be explained by conventional climate change models

Significant increase in rainfall in north, central Africa: Study

Almost all regions of the continent, except the south and east, showed a significant increase in annual rainfall from 1983 to 2020    

Global Eco Watch: Komodo dragons could become extinct soon due to climate change

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Harmattan and the air we breathe: What can we learn?

The massive climate change-induced dust fall event in west Africa has many lessons for all combating deadly air pollution  

Video: How winds transport over 27 million tonnes of dust from Sahara to Amazon

NASA study says 22,000 tonnes of this dust is phosphorus which acts like a fertiliser for the rainforests

Humans may have transformed the Sahara from lush paradise to barren desert

The world's biggest desert used to be green, lush and full of hippos. A new theory suggests humans could have tipped the environment over the edge

Bad business all round

Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book

DTE Analysis: How normal was April 2022 in India

Peninsular India was actually cooler while the northern parts of the country experienced temperature differences normally associated with the …

Giraffes range across diverse African habitats — we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them

Many of these animals are at risk, largely due to habitat loss and illegal hunting

Green sands

Ancient Sahara was wetter and wilder before. Changes in vegetation have played a role in transforming its climate

Solar energy from North Africa could light up UK homes by 2018

Electricity to be transported from Sahara desert to Europe via undersea cable

Fatally fixated

The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous

Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …

African countries must double investment in agricultural R&D, finds study

The report analyses trends in investments and human resource capacity in African agriculture system

Killing dust

African dust clouds cause red tides that kill millions of fish in the Gulf of Mexico

Is India headed towards a locust plague

Exceptional summer breeding may prompt swarms to remain in the country through end of year, move east & south

Niger issues new permits for uranium mining in Sahara

A chocolate truck to Timbuktu