South Africa’s edges don’t just reveal distance; they show character. Here are five remote towns that are hard to reach - and ...

Saharan dust is expected to hit the Texas Gulf Coast by Sunday, becoming the most irritating to sensitive eyes and noses by ...

A Saharan dust plume may cause enhanced sunsets and minor air quality issues, according to an AccuWeather expert.

A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.

A map and GPS unit are mandatory, too, as getting lost here can have deathly consequences.Sprawling for almost 43,000sq miles and with an average of just two residents per square mile, the Kunene ...

Arts & Culture | January 2020. Forgotten Desert. A photographer ventures into remote northern Africa for an unprecedented view of one of the world’s most troubled, and least understood, regions ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

The huge African country with the longest Med coastline that's 90% covered by desert Before petroleum was discovered in the late 1950s, the country was considered one of the poorest nations in the ...

However, according to average rainfall maps from the NWS Climate Prediction Center, some parts of the desert in northern Africa saw as much as 600 percent of the average precipitation over the ...

A recent study has mapped the locations of 9.9 billion trees across Africa’s drylands, a region below the Sahara Desert and north of the equator. The research, which combined satellite mapping ...

Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, a report says. The study by the United Nations University ...