(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 ...

Rare snowfall has transformed the golden dunes of northern Algeria into a stunning winter landscape. Cold air from Europe ...

The Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study was ...

(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. The ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern Africa in just a few days. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Scientists are excited over a recent discovery of "black mesas" in the Sahara desert that appear to be hundreds of millions of years old. The are was discovered in the southern Mauritania region of ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...