Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn’t always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you’ll find it was actually quite ...

The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert, stretching across 3.6 million square miles.

But that image of the Sahara — gentle waves of pristine sand, like a golden snowfall — has stuck with me. I'm sure the word Sahara conjures a similar image for you too, thanks to hundreds of ...

The Sahara Desert is being bettered by torrential rain in highly unusual weather conditions for the area. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, with one of the harshest climates. The ...

As Pope Francis passed over the Sahara desert Tuesday en route to a six-day visit to sub-Saharan Africa, he paused to pray for migrants who lose their lives trying to cross the desert in search of ...

When six fans of West African music, including Jimmy Buffett and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, head for Timbuktu, in Mali, anything can happen.

Much of Libya's water supply used to come from expensive desalination plants on the coast, which left little water to irrigate land—vital in this largely desert country. Moreover the coastal ...

Errachidia, a desert city in southeast Morocco, recorded nearly 3 inches of rainfall, most of it across just two days last month. That’s more than four times the normal rainfall for the whole ...