With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

The 3D map indicates where the cloud most muddies the waters of the cosmos, as well as charts the regions where the “extinction” of light is less affected by the particulate matter.

Africa’s mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

Its goal? To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade. This goal is extremely ambitious. There are technical challenges, financial challenges, and political challenges. Five years to ...

Two students from Northern Ireland are preparing to run the equivalent of over six marathons in a week for charity in the blistering Sahara Desert heat. Jake McBride and Ross Clarke, both 22 ...

Enabling users to create highly detailed and visually immersive 3D maps and scenes, this collaboration integrates Google’s Photorealistic 3D Tiles into the ArcGIS suite. "We are excited to ...

The Polisario Front has lodged an official protest with the Madrid Chamber of Commerce, denouncing what it calls the «illegal ...

Tandridge District Council's leader Catherine Sayer said remote sensing called LiDAR would be used to create 3D maps instead of borehole testing. She said: "What I have seen is information that ...

The program, which ran this past winter from Jan. 2-29, included an enriching cultural experience with excursions to iconic sites like the Sahara Desert and other popular tourist attractions in ...

Astronomers have uncovered the secrets of an alien atmosphere on an exoplanet far beyond our Solar System, and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. In a scientific first, an ...