Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

Wind currents across the Atlantic Ocean will soon steer dust from the Saharan Desert in northern Africa toward Green Country.

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

Xinjiang has long stood at the forefront of China's fight against desertification. Home to the Taklimakan Desert — China's ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

An annual meteorological phenomenon has blown in to make Central Texas’ vibrant sunsets even more spectacular. A huge Sahara ...

Above most of Europe there's an intense field of high air pressure that prevents the penetration of rain-bearing clouds from the north while at the same time bringing a warm air mass from the north of ...

THE Sahara, comparable in size to the United States, is essentially a land of minerals. Plants, animals and men, all live there artificially. The vast spaces, the heat, the lack of water and ...

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, has been covered in an unexpected layer of snow. In this area, rain is ...

Tracey Howe, an honouree at the PEUGEOT Attitude PRIDE Awards, supported by British Airways, lost her wife Angela to blood ...