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

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

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 ...

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

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 Sahara is the world's largest desert, measuring approximately 3,000 miles from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south. FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images In pictures ...

Let it be recorded that my first act in the Sahara Desert was to step into a puddle of mud. It happened during a stopover at the airport in In Salah, an oasis town in central Algeria. Seeking shelt… ...

The sun sets in the Sahara Desert. Unusually heavy rain has caused an explosion of plant life across parts of the desert. Iocussolum/Getty. McCarthy credited the plant life to a shift in the ...