A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows larger every single year. What sounds like something from ancient geological ...

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 ...

Track installation for Africa's first heavy-haul desert railway has been completed, with the £1.5billion project backed by ...

Here’s what scientists know about the life form and why it could change their understanding of desert ecosystems.

Think the lazy, hazy days of summer have been a little more hazy this year? It’s not your imagination. The annual occurrence of the Sahara Air Layer is one of the largest on record this year. The ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes. Aa Aa ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — 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.

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side ...