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.

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 ...

Today, the Sahara is decidedly arid, but it wasn't always this way. Around 10,000 years ago, this same desert was a vibrant, lush savanna teeming with life, thanks to abundant rainfall.

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press reported.

A massive dust storm that came from the Sahara Desert, sometimes known as a 'haboob', that came from the east is going to hit ...

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

A wide swath of eastern Morocco is part of the Sahara Desert ... giving travelers a glimpse of life in the desert: the sunrise, the sunset, the bonfire, the stories — even the music favored ...

“The life of nomads is very simple and healthy ... The rest of the country is the Sahara Desert with lunar and volcanic landscapes, stony plains and ergs (“fields” of sand dunes).

She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at cara.tabachnick@cbsinteractive.com The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago ...

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

Somewhere in the sands of the Sahara and the sands of time, there might be hidden mummies or artifacts waiting to tell us more about what life was like in the desert before it dried out.