With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

Camel can cross the Sahara, but they can' t make a home in the desert's harshest places. Egypt's White Desert Cameraman Kevin Flay and crew in front of limestone formations in Egypt’s White Desert.

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

For over five decades, the Sahara Desert remained a hot, scorching, barren landscape pockmarked here and there with flimsy scrub bushes and cacti. Whipping Sahara winds often stirred up dust ...