A snowstorm in the Sahara desert has turned the normally sandy landscape into what looks like arctic tundra after up to 16 inches fell on areas of Algeria Sunday. The freak occurrence—it is only the ...

A new year brings new Joe Satriani music, as the guitar great has just unleashed the hypnotic new single "Sahara" along with a red-hued video for the track. Get a look and listen in the player toward ...

The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of ...

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by Seoul National University’s archeologist Dr. David Wright proposes a new angle for how the Sahara Desert came to be. Most studies prior lay the ...

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.

This footage has been recorded by NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station regularly capture stunning images of our planet, leaving space lovers mesmerized.

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 ...

Compares the present-day Sahara with what has been found by archeologists. Demonstrates how the Sahara was formed and what the area might have been like before the ...

A recent visit by the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to refugee camps for people displaced by the Western Sahara conflict has stirred up tensions in the 40-year dispute. Here, Newsweek explains ...

What if the solution to the world’s energy crisis was hiding in plain sight, beneath miles of burning sand? The Sahara Desert, stretching across North Africa, may seem barren and inhospitable. But in ...

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have ...