The arid region sometimes develops lakes after heavy rain, hinting at how the desert may have once had a different climate.

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite images after a cyclone dumped a years' worth of rain on northern ...

An unusual early September cyclone drenched large parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, filling dry lakes and rivers ...

The U.N. envoy to Western Sahara is suggesting that dividing the territory between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario ...

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to the long-standing conflict in the region.

The Sahara was once home to hippos.

The Sahara Desert's episodic refilling of lakes, such as Sebkha el Melah in 2024, illustrates its greener past and helps ...

The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the ...

Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said Monday that a recent proposal by a United Nations envoy to partition the disputed territory of Western Sahara was "unacceptable", citing past rejections ...

(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.

A picture you may have seen claims to show flooding in the Sahara Desert. Some people are saying this must be the work of ...