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

Despite its vast expanse of sand, the Sahara is not the largest desert on the planet, that distinction goes to someplace with ...

Plants, so often the minor characters in stories about charismatic living things, are the stars of this vividly illustrated ...

In general, northern Europe has more rain and, importantly, more rainy days than southern Europe. If we focus on the Atlantic ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through the Sahara desert to a gigantic “open-air museum” filled with prehistoric ...

After several days of heavy rain and storms, another atmospheric shift is headed for Texas — this time, a plume of Saharan dust. The dust, drifting westward across the Atlantic, is expected to bring ...

"It felt like I was back in Yorkshire, it was surreal to get rain in the Sahara." However, the temperature reached more than 30C on most days, he added. Mr Parish said he had also underestimated how ...

As a Touareg — a person of Berber origin, traditionally a nomadic pastoralist, who principally lives in the Sahara ... even rain one night in the dry winter. “It’s a myth that the desert ...

Unable to rely on the river or rain for irrigation ... and act as a barrier against the desert. For years, Sbai has worked with a Dutch foundation called Sahara Roots planting hundreds of trees ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...