The Sahara Desert, known for its extreme dryness and harsh climate, has experienced flooding for the first time in decades, triggering alarm and panic among scientists worldwide. This rare and ...

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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.

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press reported.

The dust mass, which forms in the Sahara Desert in northern Africa and blows thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean, is ...

Registrations opened on June 11 for what has been dubbed “the hardest foot race on earth,” a grueling 250km ultra-marathon through Morocco’s Sahara desert.

Satellite images taken by NASA’s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured the incredible moment Sebkha el Melah, a lake in the Sahara Desert, filled with water. Satellite ...

The African dust approaching the United States this week raises many questions. A meteorologist explains what you need to ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — 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 ...

Flora tends to sprout quickly once the typically dry landscape gets water. One of the driest regions ... of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched ...

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 ...

Every year around this time, the Sahara Desert in Africa experiences peak emissions that sends dust particles across the ...