The Sahara wasn’t always a desert—14,000 years ago, it was alive with rivers, people, and wildlife. Now, new evidence is ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...

The Sahara Desert is being bettered by torrential rain in highly unusual weather conditions for the area. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, with one of the harshest climates. The ...

There isn’t much green in the Sahara Desert, but an unusual shift in the weather pattern has caused storms to move where they typically wouldn’t.

For the first time in the last half-century, the Sahara Desert has flooded severely. This rare extreme weather came after two days of continuous rainfall in the southeastern Morocco region of the ...

The Sahara has an area of 9.4 million square kilometers (3.6 million square miles) (ish – it’s actually getting bigger), which means that a good 2.35 million-square-kilometer (900,000-square ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found.

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration.

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press reported.