Saharan dust is expected to blow across the Atlantic Ocean and reach Louisiana. How will the dust impact hurricane season?

A vast waterless sea where life claws for purchase in the shifting sands. But it wasn't always that way, and it won't be ...

Dust from the Sahara Desert is moving across the Atlantic Ocean and could make skies hazy over the southern United States in ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with prehistoric ...

Each year, as the Atlantic hurricane season begins, one consistent and powerful atmospheric feature makes its presence known—dust. But not just any dust!

If you’ve ever looked at a satellite image of Earth and thought, “What the hell is that?” — congratulations, you are not ...

The National Weather Service has noted that a large plume of Saharan dust is forecast to arrive across Puerto Rico and the ...

Turns out, however, that a surprising proportion of the world’s largest hot desert isn’t actually sandy at all. Just 25 percent of the Sahara’s surface is covered by sand. We say “just ...

The novel tells the story of a French detachment in Tunisia that must escort an engineer into the Sahara, where he plans to turn the desert into a vast sea. In this case, such an extraordinary idea ...

that gathers over the Sahara Desert. Trade winds then carry the dust westward across the Atlantic Ocean, and strong winds can transport this dust to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico ...