There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, ... Satellites recently captured plant life blooming in parts of the typically arid southern Sahara after storms ... over Africa on September 12 ...

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. 8.

The before-and-after photos included satellite images of the Sahara Desert, known as the world's largest hot desert, taken in 2023 and 2024. In the first photo, the terrain is mostly dry.

The Sahara Desert, one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, is experiencing an unexpected transformation. Recent heavy rainfall has brought a burst of greenery to this typically barren region.

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

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.