The Sahara Desert has expanded by approximately ten percent since 1920, according to comprehensive research analyzing rainfall data across Africa from 1920 to 2013. This expansion varies significantly ...

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

A geological study in Morocco reveals that the world's largest desert was once a green and rainy oasis that allowed civilizations to thrive.

(Reuters) -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 ...

When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while ...

When the airborne particles mixed with rain-bearing weather systems, the result was muddy or "blood rain" that left a brownish residue on cars, buildings and streets.