wait until you hear about the Sahara's jaw-dropping temperatures. This desert holds the record for the hottest earth-bound temperature ever documented—58°C (136°F) in El Azizia, Libya ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.

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 ...