For centuries, the Sahara Desert was not a barrier but a significant trade and cultural artery. This article explores the ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, ...

Libya, a country whose landscape is dominated by the immense Sahara Desert, harbors a number of oasis towns. These towns are ...

This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is surrounded by migrating sand dunes that are capable of traveling more ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

Snow has fallen in the Sahara Desert in north-western Algeria ... But the snow on the red sand dunes in December 2016 did come as a shock. Residents of Ain Sefra said that it was the first time ...

Bechir Belhad sits on Saharan sand dunes. They can live their whole lives ... prospect as we set out into the vastness of the Sahara Desert. Yet with hundreds and hundreds of miles of golden ...

Ryan Ewing, Texas A&M University ‘Nick Lancaster’s fifty-plus years of field research on desert dunes and his keen insights on the ‘big-picture’ of dune formation and change make him the best ...

The Sahara is traversed by endless rows of dunes called barchans. The word means “crescent-shaped dune” in the Turkic ... motorized travel in the Libyan Desert in the 1920s and ’30s.

This striking false-color image shows massive wind-carved ridges and a "shadowy" patch of sand dunes at the heart of Iran's ...