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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable of taking down a T. rex in Jurassic Park 3. Then they changed their mind ...

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

An urgent warning has been issued as the Santa Ana winds are forecast to bring gusts of up to 70 mph to some areas of Southern California.

Temperatures fell to as low as -1°C in Belfast overnight and some parts of the UK woke up to fresh snow. There were heavy ...

Hopefully you were able to get out and enjoy the sunshine yesterday - as Britain is set to be hit by 'blood rain' over the coming hours.

This sprawling desert landscape in Christmas Valley, Oregon looks about as Pacific Northwest as a cactus in a rainforest. These wind-sculpted ripples stretch endlessly, proving Mother Nature ...

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