The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world. It gets just 3 inches of precipitation per year—one-tenth of the ...

Strong winds across the ever-expanding Sahara Desert are creating a massive 2,000-mile dust cloud with two major pulses. As the earth warms, we are seeing more climate impacts that are both awesome in ...

New dinosaurs by the dozen fill two large shipping containers poised to depart Niger for Africa’s coast and then travel by ship across the Atlantic destined for my Fossil Lab at the University of ...

ASD-1 is an example stalagmite used in our study, from a cave found by Dr Julia Barrott during her 2010 fieldwork. We are careful to work with samples that are already broken from natural processes, e ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo — Kansas City woke up to a ...

The sky turned orange in parts of southern Europe as some areas were covered with sand and dust brought by strong winds from the Sahara desert in Africa. Meteorologists say the phenomenon occurs every ...

Researchers have found a vast number of animal remains—including those of fish—at a site in the Sahara Desert, casting new light on the ancient peoples who used to live there. Recent investigations at ...

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Dust from the Sahara Desert could help keep a lid on Atlantic hurricanes, at least for the next few days. Hurricane forecasters on Wednesday continued to watch a plume of dust that had moved off ...

OK, this is something pretty rare..... Sahara dust moving over Louisville. Several times this year the dust has made it to Texas with reduced visibility. Now for the first time this year the dust ...