The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flood watch for desert areas in southern California, southern Nevada, and ...

Twentynine Pines in the California desert, as well as Joshua Tree National Park, were placed under a warning for ...

A plume of dust from the Sahara desert has been traveling across the Atlantic Ocean making its way to the United States over ...

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

Storms moved across the desert on Tuesday afternoon, with the most serious effects felt in the high desert of San Bernardino ...

New research from UC Santa Barbara reveals that the atmosphere’s drying capacity is outpacing increases to rainfall.

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Several locations in the High Desert, including the Antelope Valley ... were covered in snow following the first bout of winter weather over Christmas weekend. El Niño officially commenced ...

Here's what Saharan dust is, when the next plume is expected in Florida and how it affects hurricane formation.

When the skies darken—not with rain, but with insects—farmers brace for impact. The desert locust, one of the world’s most ...