The Sahara desert is a scorching plain — during the day, at least. As surprising as it may be to some people, the Sahara actually does get snow from time to time. It’s a rare occurrence ...

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The Sahara Desert wasn’t always a barren wasteland—evidence suggests it was once home to lush vegetation, rivers, and thriving wildlife. Scientists are uncovering traces of this lost ecosystem, ...

Attempts to tame the Sahara Desert spawned some seriously cool, strange, and innovative vehicles during the 20th century.

Snowfall in the Sahara Desert? Just one of the stories in our round-up of the news you may have missed this week. The pager represents of "a turning point in the war" when Israel carried out an ...

Satellite imagery from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) showed desert dust moving north across the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, February 3.“A plume of dust from the ...

Interestingly, though, despite its scorching reputation, the Sahara is no stranger to snow - in 2018, up to 15 inches (40cm) of snow fell in Algeria, a rare sight in a desert where there’s ...

The dunes of the Sahara were whitened by a layer of snow on New Year’s Day, video from Ain Sefra in north Algeria shows. Video here was provided by Karim Bouchetata, and shows snow falling as well as ...

North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.