T he Sahara Desert is a mass body of sand dunes, valleys, mountains, salt flats, and rocky plateaus that extend over 3,000 miles in length, connecting 10 different countries. Its arid, barren ...

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like By Laura Paddison, CNN 2 min read Updated 3:14 PM EDT, Mon October 14, 2024 ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. Over the course of just two days in September, the dry region was hit with ...

Sabah, Libya, is an oasis town at the northern edge of the Sahara Desert. To stand at the edge of the town and look southward into the desert toward Niger is forbidding.

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. ... Sometimes known as the gateway to the Sahara, Mhamid and its surrounding villages are home to about 6,100 people.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Dust that originated in the Sahara Desert made it into the Gulf of Mexico on June 25, 2020. Sahara dust can make it to Alabama, but it doesn't happen all that often.

The Sahara Desert, a stretch of sand about the size of the United States, is an extremely forbidding land. With temperatures as high as 136 degrees Fahrenheit, it is one of the hottest places on ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town in the Sahara. The 10-day event features dances, chants and a ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found.