When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifting in the atmosphere scatter blue light while ...

The team, led by Everester Malay Mukherjee and comprising Debasish Chakraborty and Partha Pratim Hazra, started their ...

The phenomenon known as blood rain is impacting parts of Southern Europe this week as Saharan dust from Africa moves across the region. The rare weather event began on Saturday moving dust northward ...

Deep in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania runs the longest train in the world, carrying iron ore from the mines of Zouérat to the coast. With no seats, no shelter, and brutal desert winds, we climbed ...

The Marathon des Sables has a way of becoming far more complicated than it needs to be. Spend five minutes online and you’ll find spreadsheets, gear breakdowns to the gram, and endless debates ...

Red Saharan dunes dusted white with snow near Ain Sefra, Algeria, creating a fleeting contrast that happens only a handful of times per century. Watch locals slide down sand dunes covered in enough ...

If someone told you there’s a massive desert dune field in California that looks like it belongs in the Middle East, would you believe them? The Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley are California ...