Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human ...

The Sahara today is shorthand for desolation, a vast belt of sand and rock that helps define the climate of an entire ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The ...

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 North ...

Rare snowfall has transformed the golden dunes of northern Algeria into a stunning winter landscape. Cold air from Europe ...