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 ...

When most people hear the word \"desert,\" they imagine dunes, scorching winds, and unbearable heat. Images of the Sahara or ...

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 ...

Residents of Worcester may be noticing the skies are a little more hazy and some items have a fine layer of Sahara Desert sand.

China has morphed into a green powerhouse over the past decade, and their push to fight desertification is doing more than ...

In 2015, NASA-backed research led by Hongbin Yu revealed that millions of tons of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic each year, ...

A plume of very fine sand and mineral particles has travelled all the way from North Africa to the UK on warm southerly winds ...

Met Office weather forecasters say Thursday could be the hottest day of the year as heat coming from the Sahara Desert sends ...

Known as “La Calima,” this desert dust plume could hit Spain, Portugal and France, bringing with it grit-laden, rust-colored ...

Every year wind-swept dust from the Sahara Desert in Africa travels over the Atlantic Ocean, which can be seen by satellites.

The rugged and beautiful Greek island of Lemnos is home to a desert in the Gomati area, to the island's north.