The adventure begins in Taghit, where towering golden dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental meet a lush oasis of palm trees. This ...

How a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria became home to more than 5,000 ancient cave paintings, some dating back 10,000 ...

From the highest pinnacle of Mount Everest to the deepest abyss of the Mariana Trench, our planet is a fascinating ...

This week, desert dust that has traveled halfway across the world is making Northeast Ohio sunsets more vibrant.

What is Saharan dust? Learn how dust from the Sahara Desert reaches Houston, affects air quality, creates hazy skies and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A skull more than five feet long emerged from rocks near the edge of Tunisia’s Sahara Desert with much of the animal still attached. The fossil included the neck, back, tail, and limbs, giving ...

A slice of the rare angrite meteorite NWA 12774 shows olivine crystal (green), a mineral rich in magnesium. John Kashuba A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence ...

Keeping tabs on the species’ populations is surprisingly hard. A new aerial effort tracks the marks they leave behind A dugong, also known as a sea cow, in a protected marine reserve in the ...