Plus Georges Simenon’s “The Snow Was Dirty” and David Swinson’s “From the Dust.” ...

In West Africa, there's a territory the size of Colorado that doesn't officially belong to any nation. Photos show life in Western Sahara.

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit "blood rain," ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

The Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire hemisphere. Yet geological records show that this same region has repeatedly ...

A dense wave of Sahara dust has swept across Santorini and many other parts of Greece, turning the sky eerily red and ...

You’ll find a lot more sand than trees in the Sahara Desert, but that doesn’t mean they don’t occasionally crop up. Here’s the story of the Tree of Ténéré, as well as a couple other famous trees found ...

The discovery of fossilised human remains in the Sahara Desert has marked a new era in research on the history of human ...

Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s water largely receded 6,000 years ago. Could it return? The Ennedi Natural ...

Bright orange sand in the Sahara Desert was dusted in a layer of snow earlier this week after a strong polar front from the Mediterranean pushed past the Atlas Mountains near the coast of Algeria.