Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - * ...

Often depicting animals in motion, kinetic portraits, and expressive hands, Taquen’s expansive works exude momentum. The ...

Imagine a predator so rare that even seasoned trackers consider it a myth. The Saharan cheetah, with its ghostlike presence, ...

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

The oldest color ever was found in the Sahara desert. The region used to have an ocean flowing through, but the geological ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

Riccardo Fabiani, north Africa director at the International Crisis Group, said the decision in June was “pretty bad” for ...

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

A light layer of Saharan dust is expected to drift along the Texas Gulf Coast by Sunday, bringing hazy skies, reduced air quality, and vivid sunsets to parts of South and East Texas.

The U.N.'s food agency says it will suspend various food and nutritional assistance in vulnerable countries across West and ...

In late June, Pasatiempo caught up with Vieux Farka Touré, a Mali (West African) musician whose father is the late Ali Farka ...

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...