UNITED NATIONS—Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the UN World Meteorological ...

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

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.

The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

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) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

Africa has nine deserts in total but none are arguably as famous as the Sahara. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million square miles - an area roughly the size of the ...

Africa is one of the best continents for arid escapes with surreal landscapes like Namibia’s Sossusvlei, the “Star Wars” scenes of Tunisia and the Sahara iron ore train of Mauritania.