Africa's Great Green Wall is an 8,000-kilometre restoration initiative stretching from Senegal to Djibouti, aimed at ...

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.

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

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.

Today the Sahara desert is a dry, dusty, sandy land that stretches for millions of miles, but it wasn't always this way. Go back at little as 8,000 years and you'll find it was actually quite wet, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...