Did you know a massive plume of dust from Africa is on its way across the ocean — and it could impact this hurricane season?

Saharan dust will blanket Florida and the Gulf Coast, causing hazy skies, colorful sunsets and short‑term air-quality issues.

Large plumes of dust that originated in the Sahara Desert could begin causing hazy skies over South Florida this week.

Some 700 years ago, an unknown people built a massive citadel in the middle of the Sahara Desert that's known as Ksar Draa.

A rare Sahara Desert meteorite revealed a lost Mars-sized planet from the solar system's first million years. The post ...

Smoke from wildfires in the Mountain West and dust from the Sahara Desert have combined to create a haze in the skies over ...

Dozens of people died of thirst in the Sahara Desert in a northern region of Niger after their truck broke down and they were ...

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.

Asharq Al Awsat Ukraine and Russia each exchanged 185 service personnel in the latest prisoner of war swap on Friday, officials in both countries said.Most of the Ukrainians brought back were in ...

Africa's Sahara Desert isn't the place you'd expect to see snow. Yet a rare winter storm powdered the arid sand dunes of northwestern Algeria with white snow on Sunday, the third time an event like ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by University of Maryland scientists. The research is the first to assess century-scale changes to the ...

Yesterday, Algerians living in the Sahara Desert found themselves in a winter wonderland as up to 16 inches of snow covered the desert dunes. This rare event has occurred only three times in the past ...