This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the most fascinating and extreme places on Earth! It’s the largest hot desert in the world, covering vast landscapes of sand, rock and even mountains. Despite its tough ...

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti, a historical hub for poets, scholars, and theologians and home to thousands of ...

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 ...

But there was one I hadn’t realized I’d need to survive the Sahara: reading sand dunes ... did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert, I came under its spell ...

How this ancient African city is being buried under Sahara sand - The ancient city of Chinguetti is succumbing to a sea of ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by ...

This is the Sahara of dread. A waterless sea of sand and stone ... Ninety-five percent of Libya is desert, 20 percent is dunes, and not a single perennial river runs through it.

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.

Mary-Joy Albutt trained on the Maspalomas Sand Dunes in Gran Canaria to prepare for the trek A woman is taking on a five-day trek across the Sahara Desert in memory of her mother, who died after ...

Life thrives in the extremes of the Sahara Desert and Alaska as nature and humans adapt to intense heat and freezing cold with scarce resources.