Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

In what many are calling a shocking abuse of power, a Nigerian soldier, identified as Lance Corporal Ahmada A., has allegedly beaten a young mobile phone repairer, Alkasum Ibrahim, to death in ...

Meteorites found in the Sahara Desert might be pieces of Mercury that broke off as the result of a collision when the Solar System was still forming.

Dust from the Sahara Desert could bring hazy skies to North Texas in early July.

I trekked through the Sahara Desert with my in-laws after only meeting them a few times. I was nervous, but it was a fantastic trip.

Darran Cusick undertook the Marathon des Sables to fundraise for the British Heart Foundation after his teenage son Ashton was diagnosed with a heart condition.

Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not ...

Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the ...

Smoke, dust, what else is heading toward U.S.? As dust cloud over the Sahara Desert sweeps to the U.S., here's what a haboob is.

A colossal cloud of Saharan dust is blanketing the Caribbean en route to the U.S. The plume is expected to hit Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi late this week and into the weekend.

Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean, in Cataño, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 2, 2025.