"The southern Sahara Desert is incredibly green ... Colin McCarthy posted with the photos on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. McCarthy credited the plant life to a shift in the monsoon, a change ...

(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 ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara ... of endless desert. Long-abandoned oil-drilling equipment. In such stark images you feel ...

Desert plants may have to go without fresh water for years at a time. Some plants have adapted to the arid climate by growing long roots that tap water from deep underground. Other plants ...

Hot deserts are found near the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The largest hot desert is the Sahara in Africa which spans the whole width of the continent.