The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain. Scientists are unclear why, but it may be linked to a subdued Atlantic hurricane season. When you purchase ...

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 ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most arid, barren places on Earth, but it does receive a few inches of rainfall a year. Over the course of just two days in September, the dry region was hit with ...

Many tourists who visited the Sahara motored... A vehicle transports tourists on sand dunes next to a lake caused by heavy rainfall in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern ...

NASA documented a sudden change in the landscape after a storm unloaded heavy rain across the northwestern Sahara on Sept. 7 and 8, drenching parts of Morocco and Algeria, where such downpours are ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in decades.

The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days in September, however, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in southeast Morocco ...

It is not wholly unusual for the plant life to sprout in the Sahara when a deluge of rain pours in, past research has shown. When parched regions in this part of Africa get heavy rainfall ...

with increased precipitation occurring 2,000 years earlier in southern compared to northern Sahara regions, as well as ending 700 years earlier, which would have narrowed the Sahara Desert.

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but after an unusual influx of rain, the color can be seen from space creeping into parts of one of the driest places in the world. Satellites ...