Mediterranean sediments are valuable archives of both African monsoon variability and
higher-latitude climate processes, and can also be used to provide an environmental context …

The largest terrestrial coalescent landslide areas of the Earth, spanning hundreds to
thousands of square kilometres, occur along the fringes of relatively low-relief sedimentary …

The primary objective of the European Space Agency's 7th Earth Explorer mission,
BIOMASS, is to determine the worldwide distribution of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) …

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth. Yet the timing of its inception and its response
to climatic forcing is debated, leading to uncertainty over the causes and consequences of …

Reconstructions of past Saharan dust deposition in marine sediments provide foundational
records of North African climate over time scales of 103 to 106 years. Previous dust records …

North African greening phases, during which large rivers ran through the Sahara Desert,
occurred repeatedly during the Quaternary and are regarded as key periods for the …

There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African
Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of …

There is ample evidence from palaeobotanic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions that during
early and mid-Holocene between some 11,700 years (in some regions, a few thousand …

Climatic factors are considered major causes and triggers of slope instability, but the
palaeoclimatic implications of landslides have not yet been systematically reviewed. As …

The Sahara was wetter and greener during multiple interglacial periods of the Quaternary,
when some have suggested it featured very large (mega) lakes, ranging in surface area from …