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

A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

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 then ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

One of the most famous deserts on earth is the Sahara Desert. Located in North Africa, this vast plain of sand is often thought of as the largest desert on in the world. However, is this common ...

North Africa receives some of the most intense solar energy on Earth, and just a fraction of the Sahara could theoretically supply the entire world’s electricity. But grand visions like the ...

Smoke, dust, what else is heading toward U.S.? As dust cloud over the Sahara Desert sweeps to the U.S., here's what a haboob is.

A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday as it heads toward the United States.

The Sahara Desert in North Africa spans more than 3.5 million square miles and, here, winds pick up vast amounts of mineral dust and carry them across the desert.

The Sahara Desert stretches across North America, covering an area roughly the size of the U.S. Spanning more than 3.5 million square miles, it's the world's largest hot desert, with temperatures ...

The Sahara spans over 3.5 million square miles across North Africa and is a large source for mineral dust that gets picked up by winds across the desert. Sometimes, this dust can actually reach us ...