A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

(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 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.

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. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press ...

The Sahara’s edge is now in places like Mali, where 65% of the land is desert or semi-desert. It’s growing 48 kilometers a year. Droughts make water scarce, hurting communities.

The Largest Hot Desert When imagining the vastness of the world, the Sahara Desert often stands out. 2 million square kilometers, it ranks as the largest hot desert on our planet. To give you a ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is moving across the Atlantic Ocean and could make skies hazy over the southern United States in early June.

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.

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.

A dust plume from the Saharan Desert covering most of the Caribbean is expected to reach Florida and the Gulf region late this week and throughout the weekend.