SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. ... Before now, the lake bed had been dry as a bone for over 50 years.

Since the Sahara only became habitable about 15,000 years ago, their original homeland remains uncertain," Krause said. Their lineage remained isolated throughout most of its existence before the ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. ... Sometimes known as the gateway to the Sahara, Mhamid and its surrounding villages are home to about 6,100 people.

Florida, along with some of its surrounding states, is in the path of a gigantic cloud of dust drifting from the Sahara Desert.

Standing atop a small dune deep in the Sahara Desert, a team of scientists stared at a freshly opened grave. Three human skeletons lay on their sides, as though they’d drifted off to sleep in ...