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.

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

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.

And now, it’s helping researchers study what the Sahara may have looked ... an ephemeral lake can be for life in the world’s largest non-polar desert. You can see the region of Algeria as ...

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.

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

Satellites recently captured plant life blooming in parts of the typically ... As a result, these portions of the Sahara Desert are anywhere from twice as wet to more than six times wetter than ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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).