The world's largest desert, the Sahara, was flooded for the first time in 50 years after a rare spell of rain in Morocco. Satellite imagery captured the remarkable filling of Lake Iriqui, a famous ...

The Sahara Desert flooded for the first time in decades. Here’s what it looks like. ... The rain also filled lakes that are normally dry, such as one in Iriqui National Park, ...

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

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Dust from the Sahara Desert is bringing more heat to Tampa Bay The sun sets over the Crystal Beach pier in Palm Harbor on June 30. Sunsets soon could be even more stunning than usual in Tampa Bay.

In fact, it only takes up .2% of the whole Sahara Desert and yet is THE primary source of all this dust--hundreds of thousands of tons of it every year! You can see on the map below the exact ...

The dry and dusty air known as the Saharan Air Layer forms over the Sahara Desert in Africa and moves west across the Atlantic Ocean starting around April until about October, according to NOAA.

The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco ...