For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

Have you ever dreamed of driving through endless sands, marveling at surreal landscapes under a sky so vast it swallows you ...

In our modern day of safe cities and designated hiking trails, very few places seem as unsafe to us as the middle of the Sahara. Unsurprisingly, the Sahara desert has been a much more dangerous ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Most summers, dust from the Saharan Desert makes its way into Central Texas and creates beautiful sunrises and sunsets. But the dust can also create health problems for some ...

A dust cloud from the Sahara Desert blanketing regions from Jamaica to the eastern Caribbean is expected to reach Florida and the Gulf region of the United States this week. The cloud, also called ...

The Sahara Desert stretches across North America, covering an area roughly the size of the U.S. Spanning more than 3.5 million square miles, it's the world's largest hot desert, with temperatures ...

But it only rains a total of five days a year.” The Algerian Sahara is also home to several animals like the desert fox, wild sheep, jackal and gazelle. Their footprints prove it.

April 5, 2025 / 6:09 PM EDT / CBS News The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found.