In our modern day of safe cities and designated hiking trails, very few places seem as unsafe to us as the middle of the ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Drawn by European powers with little regard for the people living there, this map from 1935 still shapes Africa’s politics, borders, and struggles today.

Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron from dead diatoms, fertilizes the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon River ...

Egypt's Whale Valley, or "Wadi Al-Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures from land-based to marine animals.

What is Saharan dust? This refers to the dust carried by winds across the Atlantic from the Sahara Desert. Thunderstorms in the Sahara region stir up dust and push it into the atmosphere.

Dune: Awakening update 1.1.0.17, which adjusts the PvE area to encompass the entire southern half of the Deep Desert map, is out now. Check out the patch notes.

He and Carpenter, 60, chose the New Mexico-Mexico border because it’s an area where groups in California, Arizona and Texas don’t come to regularly.

Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have ...