The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world. It gets just 3 inches of precipitation per year—one-tenth of the ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September. The Sahara ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert could help keep a lid on Atlantic hurricanes, at least for the next few days. Hurricane forecasters on Wednesday continued to watch a plume of dust that had moved off ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is currently moving across the Atlantic Ocean, which could make skies in the South hazy during early June. The Sahara Desert in North Africa spans more than 3.5 million ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape. Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Countries in the Sahel region of Africa have made little progress on the "Great Green Wall," a 5,000-mile-long band of trees planned for the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Even where countries ...

The best time for dune bashing in Tunisia's Sahara is during cooler months, from October to April. During these months, ...

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The ...