(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 ...

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 ...

The Sahara Desert , despite its extreme conditions, is home to over 100 reptiles, 70 mammals, and 90 species of birds. Spanning approximately 3.3 million square miles (8.6 million square ...

A new paper suggests that their elusive remains may lie buried in some of the world’s least accessible regions: the Amazon rainforest, the Congo Basin, and the Sahara.

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 ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert.

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.

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 before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the world's largest hot desert, taken in 2023 and 2024. In the first photo, the terrain is mostly dry.

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...