Sahara Middle Eastern Eatery has been serving up shawarma for 17 years at its university location in southeast Albuquerque.

Early in the 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Chen Maoping read a story in “National Geographic” about the Sahara Desert, and it captured her imagination. She became determined to live there.

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent since ... But, as the desert spreads, land for farming gets less, making food hard to find. Less land for farming, overgrazing, and cutting down ...