Another show of the kind will be even more unlikely when the lending museums get full reports on some of the difficulties. In high (4,825 ft.), dry Salisbury the humidity at night falls as low as 30%.

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.

The Largest Prehistoric Structure South of the Sahara Archaeologists only started studying the 1,500-year-old site properly last century. Great Zimbabwe's Great Enclosure, as seen in April 2010.

The small Senegalese desert is about 250 kilometers, or 155 miles, south of the Sahara. Andrew J. Whitaker/Staff Another side effect of Saharan dust happens at sunrise and twilight.

In the Western imagination, the Sahara is an empty space, a state of nature. Some locals shared this view before Europeans discovered the savannah south of the sands. Ibn Khaldun, the polymath ...

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.

Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean, in Cataño, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 2, 2025.