Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

So in 2016, Sbai co-founded the Joudour Sahara music school with Thomas Duncan of the Playing for Change Foundation, a California nonprofit that uses music to bring communities together.

The Sahara Desert, known for its extreme dryness and harsh climate, has experienced flooding for the first time in decades, triggering alarm and panic among scientists worldwide. This rare and ...

Scientists at World Weather Attribution found the fingerprints of climate change in Hurricane Helene’s large-scale rain and winds as well as the flooding rains in the eastern Sahel.

The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study ...

On July 1, 1905, and for a month, the Magasin d’Education et de Récréation serialized a novel by Jules Verne titled L’invasion de la mer (The Invasion of the Sea), the last work the French author ...

Torrential rains during the Sahel’s rainy season (July to September) caused widespread flooding, displacing millions and submerging tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across Burkina Faso ...

Nigeria has called for an urgent action to reduce the growing impacts of climate change on its regions. The issues were highlighted during a side event hosted by the Federal Ministry of Regional ...

Based on the study by Liu and Xue (Journal Scientific Reports, 2020), the Sahara is expected to experience its dry desert climate until 2050. What causes the Sahara flood? Blessings or disasters? In ...

The desert in Morocco is now dotted with lakes and ponds. (Image: GETTY) Stunning pictures show the transformed Sahara Desert after an “exceptional” rain causes rivers to flow.

Africa is bearing the brunt of climate change, even though it only contributes around 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In several countries, the start of the school year has been ...