New Research Suggests Ancient Humans Helped Make the World’s Largest Desert
It seems impossible to imagine, but where the Sahara is dominated today by a landscape of sand dunes, just a few thousand years ago, it was a vast grassland dotted with lakes. An archaeologist has now suggested that we humans played a pivotal role in bringing on the rapid changes in ecology that caused a […]
Morocco shows Its Massive Solar Power Plant In The Sahara
Morocco has officially turned on a massive solar power plant in the Sahara Desert, kicking off the first phase of a planned project to provide renewable energy to more than a million Moroccans. The Noor I power plant is located near the town of Ouarzazate, on the edge of the Sahara. It’s capable of generating […]
Mysterious Islamic tribe where women have multiple sexual partners, don’t wear veil & own the property
Behind the ancient way of life for the Tuareg tribe of the Sahara is a culture so progressive it would even make some in liberal western cultures blush. Women are allowed to have multiple sexual partners outside of marriage, keep all their property on divorce and are so revered by their sons-in-laws that the young […]
Sahara Sandstorm in Niger Claims Migrant Lives
The bodies of 18 migrants, mainly West Africans who were trying to reach Europe, have been found in the Sahara desert in Niger, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Most died of dehydration after losing their way in a sandstorm, having set off from the desert town of Arlit. The 17 men and one […]
World’s most remote film festival – Sahara screenings
This is the world’s most remote film festival – in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert, where nothing grows and few people visit. The sun is so scorching in Algeria’s Dakhla camp – over the border from the disputed territory of Western Sahara – that equipment, including solar panels, can melt in the heat. […]
