The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models ...

But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned ... wave of interest across the region. Word spread to even the most isolated parts of Mauritania. The search was on. Herder Mohamed Bagouma ...

Out in the Sahara Desert, in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable, a natural solution to the climate crisis is growing ­– and at a rapid rate. London-based startup Brilliant ...

(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.

Rainfall has spiked in the Sahara Desert despite having been one of the driest places on Earth for hundreds of years. On September 10 the world was shocked to find that rainfall had hit the huge ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and ... new sense of the word “arresting.” ...

One sudden wave of lushness followed an extratropical cyclone in the northwestern Sahara on September 7 and 8, which brought a downpour of rain to regions that hardly receive any, according to ...

Sahara Desert: You might be surprised to know that the world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, was once a lush plain. As per cave paintings, there were rivers with crocodiles. Elephants, lions and ...

She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago ...

In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange ... Follow scientists as they search for new clues to the winding evolutionary path of mammals that moved from the land into the sea ...

Word spread to even the most isolated parts of Mauritania. The search was on. The desert outpost town of Bir Moghrein in northern Mauritania. Mohamed Bagouma stands for a portrait with his ...