(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 ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

The name Sahara itself comes from the Arabic word for desert. The English word desert comes from the Latin desertum, denoting a place that is forsaken, uninhabited or without people.In fact, the ...

The Sahara Desert town of Ain Sefra has experienced just three snow events in the past 37 years with the last two years having snow (1979, 2016, and 2017). Il a neigé sur les dunes rouges du ...

A NASA false-color satellite image shows parts of the Sahara Desert in Morocco and Algeria on August 14, 2024. The second image shows the same area on September 10, ...

The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco, ...