(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 ...

(Reuters) - Here are some key facts on the dispute over Western Sahara, a tract of desert the size of Britain. * WHAT IS THE DISPUTE? -- Western Sahara, a sparsely-populated former Spanish colony, was ...

Seas of sand form the core of the Sahara, the world’s largest desert. Our expedition caravan wound slowly between dunes, probing for terrain hard enough to get us to our end goal — wind-swept rock ...

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New dinosaurs by the dozen fill two large shipping containers poised to depart Niger for Africa’s coast and then travel by ship across the Atlantic destined for my Fossil Lab at the University of ...