By Maya L. Kapoor In southern California’s Coachella Valley, pale sand dunes sprawl under the desert sun, shifting and re-forming in the wind. In dry years, lone shrubs dot the dunes. But the ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolising battle. On the other hand, a piece of cloth symbolising peace. They dance a ...

Scientists have determined that a major change in the climate of the Sahara and Sahel region of North Africa facilitated early human migrations from the African continent. Among the key findings ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t. CNN values your feedback 1.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi ...

In fact, in the whole world, they can be found only in the Sahara. Their cunning is legendary, and their huge ears make them instantly recognisable, but few have seen one in the wild and even ...

Martin Claussen, Veronika Gayler, The Greening of the Sahara during the Mid-Holocene: Results of an Interactive Atmosphere-Biome Model, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, Vol. 6, No. 5 (Sep., ...

The evolution of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) during the Holocene remains uncertain. In particular, a host of new paleoclimate records suggest that ENSO internal variability or other ...

The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.