For over five decades, the Sahara Desert remained a hot, scorching, barren landscape pockmarked here and there with flimsy scrub bushes and cacti. Whipping Sahara winds often stirred up dust devils ...

(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. The ...

Lakes have appeared in the Sahara after a cyclone brought a deluge of rain to northern Africa that drenched swathes of the ...

One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape. Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An old NASA satellite that studied the sun ...

In December 2016, snow fell in the Sahara for the first time since 1979. In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid sang: “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” In fact, it does snow in ...

"A very remarkable series of events took place during the late Miocene between 5.96 and 5.33 million years ago." Each year, dust from the Sahara Desert blows off Africa and across the Atlantic, but ...