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A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind ...
Smoke, dust, what else is heading toward U.S.? As dust cloud over the Sahara Desert sweeps to the U.S., here's what a haboob ...
Along with Saharan dust, rain can be expected to continue in some locations, along with higher temps and a heat index in the ...
Viewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns into a sea of dunes that ebb and flow with the wind, unabated by foliage ...
Saharan dust is helping to suppress storm development and lead to hazy skies and poor air quality in Southeast Texas, but the ...
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 ...
The Kalahari Desert provides a one-of-a-kind dune trekking experience with its semi-arid expanse, dotted with acacia trees ...
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 ...
One of the most rewarding to visit is Timimoun, located in the north on the shores of an immense sand sea of over 23,000sq ... their sense of belonging in the desert. Photograph by Simon Urwin ...
Here are eight different ways to discover desert Africa ... 4x4 dune-bashing in the Great Sand Sea that surrounds the oasis. And then taking the edge off the Sahara heat by soaking in freshwater ...