Iron that binds to Saharan dust becomes more bioreactive the further it travels, helping marine life thousands of kilometres away.

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

Recent heavy rains over the Sahara Desert have significantly transformed the landscape. Social media users have posted images ...

Scientists from the US measured the relative amounts of ‘bioreactive’ iron in four sediment cores from the bottom of the Atlantic. They showed for the first time that the further dust is blown from ...

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than ...

Etran de L'Aïr have made some major upgrades with '100% Sahara Guitar,' but they haven't forgotten where they came from.

New research suggests that soil erosion is making floods more deadly in desert areas and warns against the rising risks to ...

Parts of the Sahara Desert have seen 600 percent of the average rainfall in the past 30 days, causing extreme floods.

That day in February, the village of Essakane in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso joined a growing list of communities in the ...

Analysis: Since returning to the world stage following a 10-year civil war, Palestine and Western Sahara have been ...

In 1975, colonial power Spain abandoned Western Sahara, and Morocco swooped in to claim the territory as its own. Some of the ...

The Sahara Desert , despite its extreme conditions, is home to over 100 reptiles, 70 mammals, and 90 species of birds.