A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

The vast 250,000 square miles (650,000 square kilometer) desert on the Arabian Peninsula is known as “The Empty Quarter.” And to most, aside from waves of ocher dunes, it does look empty.

Here are eight different ways to discover desert Africa: Even Salvador Dalí couldn’t have rendered a landscape this surreal — lurid orange dunes towering more than 1,000 feet (300 meters ...

Comparison photos shared on social media show the impact of unusually heavy rain in the Sahara Desert. The before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept.

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Tracks from both authorized and illegal off-road racing have marred 3,000-year-old figures of animals, humans and objects on the desert slopes of Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region of Chile.

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than expected. It turns out these two developments are both linked to an ...

When is the Crimson Desert release date? First announced in 2019, Crimson Desert is a story-driven adventure from the team behind the Black Desert MMORPG. Four years since its initial reveal ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than ...

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Footprints, droppings, diggings and other signs left behind by animals reveal a lot to a skilled observer. Indigenous ...