Dust from the Sahara Desert is currently moving across the Atlantic Ocean, which could make skies in the South hazy during early June. The Sahara Desert in North Africa spans more than 3.5 million ...

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Dust from the Sahara Desert could help keep a lid on Atlantic hurricanes, at least for the next few days. Hurricane forecasters on Wednesday continued to watch a plume of dust that had moved off ...

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than expected. It turns out these two developments are both linked to an unexpected ...

The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is about to experience an exceptionally rare deluge. Computer models show the ...

A pioneering study discovered a previously unknown human lineage in Africa that dates back 50,000 years when modern human lineages started spreading outside Africa. This significant discovery has ...

The Copernicus Sentinel 2 mission of the European Space Agency has captured the Richat Structure in the Sahara Desert. The ...

This photograph, taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station on September 13, 2025, shows the massif casting ...

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side ...

Exploring Africa's deserts on a bicycle is an exhilarating way to experience the continent's unique landscapes and cultures ...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States. The ...