In West Africa, there's a territory the size of Colorado that doesn't officially belong to any nation. Photos show life in ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is one of the harshest environments in the world, with temperatures reaching a record of 136°F.

A 2025 astronaut photo shows a massif made of concentric mountain ridges in the Libyan desert. The rocky walls contain ...

The analysis of a sediment core from an oasis lake in Chad provides new insights into the history of precipitation in the ...

From the International Space Station, it looks unmistakably like a scar left by a meteorite: a series of concentric rocky ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

A giant dust storm stretching over 1,500 kilometres is sweeping across the Sahara, with satellite images revealing one of the ...

The Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire hemisphere. Yet geological records show that this same region has repeatedly ...

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit "blood rain," ...

Bright orange sand in the Sahara Desert was dusted in a layer of snow earlier this week after a strong polar front from the Mediterranean pushed past the Atlas Mountains near the coast of Algeria.

A dense wave of Sahara dust has swept across Santorini and many other parts of Greece, turning the sky eerily red and ...