Dust from the Saharan Desert will drift across Alabama this weekend! Find out more about the Saharan Air Layer and what it ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

The Sahara is known for being one of the driest places on Earth, but in fact, it can actually flood. Those floods aren't ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 million years.

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first ...

For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient knowledge and modern innovation protect these unique ecosystems?

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

In his new biography of the revolutionary psychiatrists life, Adam Shatz asks what Fanon would have made of the 7 October ...

An area of stormy weather in the open Atlantic Ocean became Tropical Storm Andrea on Tuesday morning, the first of the ...