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1 day ago · Sahara, largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 to 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square km).
- Climate
Sahara - Arid, Hot, Desert: The age of the Sahara has been a...
- Drainage
Sahara - Drainage, Oases, Rivers: Several rivers originating...
- Economy
Sahara - Oases, Nomads, Trade: During the century of...
- People
Sahara - Nomads, Bedouins, Tuareg: Although as large as the...
- Plant Life
Sahara - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: Saharan vegetation is...
- Animal Life
Sahara - Wildlife, Reptiles, Mammals: Relict tropical fauna...
- Study and Exploration
Sahara - Exploration, Climate, Geography: Classical accounts...
- Qattara Depression
Qattara Depression, arid Libyan Desert (Eastern Saharan)...
- Climate
5 days ago · Sahara - Wildlife, Reptiles, Mammals: Relict tropical fauna of the northern Sahara include tropical catfish and chromides found at Biskra, Algeria, and in isolated oases of the Sahara; cobras and pygmy crocodiles may still exist in remote drainage basins of the Tibesti Mountains.
5 days ago · Sahara - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: Saharan vegetation is generally sparse, with scattered concentrations of grasses, shrubs, and trees in the highlands, in oasis depressions, and along the wadis. Various halophytes (salt-tolerant plants) are found in saline depressions.
1 day ago · A new data visualization ("Death in the Desert") published today draws on interviews with more than 31,000 refugees and migrants to map the land routes they take extending from the East and Horn of Africa and West Africa through the Sahara Desert towards North Africa and the Mediterranean coast. It also plots the most common dangers they face on these routes, including violence, kidnapping for ...
4 days ago · Abstract. The Sahara-Sahel has seen recurrent episodes of instability. However, the recent Libyan and Malian crises have intensified the level of violence. These episodes have restructured the geopolitical and geographical dynamics of the region. Cross-border or regional, these contemporary crises require new institutional responses.
5 days ago · The Saharan massifs (Hoggar, Tassili, Tibesti, Aïr, Ennedi and the outliers Jebel Marra and Gebel Elba) hold ancient survivors from a wetter Sahara, including fish and crocodiles, and an overlooked group of plants. The Saharan massifs can be described, with some exaggeration, as the Galapagos of the Saharan sea.
4 hours ago · Between January 2020 and May 2024, 1,180 people are known to have died crossing the Sahara, but the true number is likely much higher, the report said. European countries, to varying degrees, have ...
