Saharan dust is expected to blow across the Atlantic Ocean and reach Louisiana. How will the dust impact hurricane season?

A Saharan dust cloud is headed for Shreveport next week, bringing haze and air quality concerns. Track its path and prepare ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa will blow over the Gulf Coast soon. What to know about air quality, dirty rain, how it ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

Sensitive populations should stay indoors as a Saharan dust is expected to worsen air quality in Florida for the next few days.

northern Africa was hammered by strong monsoon rains and the Sahara was verdant. But the climate gradually shifted, and the grasslands and rivers dried up. In the newly unforgiving desert ...

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

The Sahara Desert, known for its extreme dryness and harsh climate, has experienced flooding for the first time in decades, triggering alarm and panic among scientists worldwide. This rare and ...

The second key ingredient that meteorologists have their eye on is the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, which forecasters refer to as ENSO. ENSO is a climate cycle that shifts every few years between ...

In the French-born Spanish director's fourth feature, which premiered in competition at Cannes, a father and son join a group of itinerant ravers in the deserts of Morocco.

Officials and experts from the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) have called for immediate actions to tackle the growing threat of desertification and land degradation across Africa.

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world's largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BC. Members of our species Homo ...