Sometimes known as the gateway to the Sahara ... the encroaching dunes. At the Tinghir Oasis in central Morocco, crops like barley, alfalfa, and wheat are protected from the desert winds by ...

A vast waterless sea where life claws for purchase in the shifting sands. But it wasn't always that way, and it won't be ...

Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

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

The Saharan Air Layer currently shows up on satellite imagery out across the eastern and central Atlantic Ocean.

In a remote village in the Siwa Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert, part of the Sahara Desert, a Chinese drilling company, commissioned by the Egyptian authorities, is digging deepwater wells for the ...

On the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region sits a new desert library, awakening the lonely land with an oasis of knowledge for book lovers, tourists ...