(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. The ...

Dust plumes, whipped up by winds over the Sahara Desert, are moving over western Europe. This annual phenomenon—known in ...

When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while ...

Antarctica, the world’s largest desert, challenges the common idea that deserts are always hot. Despite being covered in ice, ...

When people hear the word “desert”, they think of scorching heat, an extremely hot atmosphere, and unbearable temperatures all around. But the actual truth is that the condition of a dessert is ...