The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

It’s been happening even in the highlands of Chile for far too long, where off-roaders driving out of bounds have caused “irreversible” damage to ancient art carved into the desert itself ...

In a remarkable twist of nature, the Sahara Desert, one of the most arid landscapes on the planet, is experiencing an unexpected transformation. Following a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept ...

One of the driest places on Earth is seeing a surprising burst of greenery, as heavy rainfall has led to vegetation sprouting across the typically barren Sahara Desert. NASA's satellite images ...

The vast 250,000 square miles (650,000 square kilometer) desert on the Arabian Peninsula is known as “The Empty Quarter.” And to most, aside from waves of ocher dunes, it does look empty.

Tracks from both authorized and illegal off-road racing have marred 3,000-year-old figures of animals, humans and objects on the desert slopes of Alto Barranco in the Tarapacá region of Chile.

The latest video shows the Tasman racing around a desert in the Middle East. The YouTube video was posted yesterday, and it's about one minute and 30 seconds long. It opens with a shot of the Al ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept.

Here are eight different ways to discover desert Africa: Even Salvador Dalí couldn’t have rendered a landscape this surreal — lurid orange dunes towering more than 1,000 feet (300 meters ...

Where the dingo fence divides three states, the sun is harsh and wild dust storms are just a gust away, hundreds of new residents are settling into the desert. But it's not people who have ...

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than expected. It turns out these two developments are both linked to an ...