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The designers, engineers, and others tackling the environmental problems we face never cease to come up with amazingly imaginative ideas. Here are some of our favorite recent projects: The Sahara Forest Project A British architecture firm has designed a desert greenhouse system that uses seawater to cool and water plants.

By Michael MacLeod THE parents of world class Scots skier say they were worried he might die during a gruelling TV gameshow. Winter Olympics hopeful Angus Morison is putting himself through a series of punishing TV survival challenges – as a tribute to his boyhood friend, the tragic rally driving champ Colin McRae.

26-year old Hout Bay resident Ryan Sandes has just won the Sahara Desert Marathon. The event is six days long, with runners covering 260km each day. Ryan Sandes won every stage - this guy is seriously fit. Check out some of the terrain he covered.

What does Palmer, Alaska and Ouarzazate in Morocco have in common? Maybe, you can’t think of anything, after all, Morocco is an African country sitting on the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Alaska sits on the Pacific and Bering Sea. Morocco is known for hot weather, Alaska is known for its cold winter.

Most people do not realize that the Sahara Desert is not just sand and rolling dunes. Only about twenty-five percent of the Sahara, which is about the size of the United States, is sand. The rest of the Sahara is volcanic hills, gravel plains, rock formations, and some scraggly vegetation.

Vienna, Oct 31 (DPA) Two Austrians kidnapped by a terrorist group in Tunisia in February were freed Thursday night in Mali, Austria’s foreign ministry announced Friday.Wolfgang Ebner, 51, and Andrea Kloiber, 43, were on holiday in the Sahara desert when they were taken hostage allegedly by the terrorist organisation Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb.

Geologists stumble on ‘dinosaur dance floor’ in Jurassic oasis October 20th, 2008 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS - Washington, Oct 20 (IANS) Geologists have identified an amazing concentration of dino footprints, in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where a desert oasis once flourished 190 million years ago.The three-quarter-acre site ...

Nothing can be more exotic than Timbuktu, which is a little town in the southern part (Sahel) of the Sahara Desert. The town might look empoverished, inhabited by poor people. But Timbuktu is near the Morgana. In my opinion, the existence of this town is a celebration of life in Sahara, and a symbol of the human strength.

Most people in the UK know at least one person whose life has been seriously affected by cancer, and as a result, many people are very keen to do something - anything - to help improve the lives of people living with cancer.