The skies over Europe recently took on a dramatic orange hue, leaving many residents staring in awe and sometimes confusion ...

An ancient wind is ... scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes us to prehistory. They are time travelers who use four-wheel-drive vehicles to navigate the Sahara looking ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

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

These are the trade winds, which normally blow westward ... Changes in overall rain patterns would turn Africa's Sahara Desert from this, to something more like this. In fact, one simulation ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... the ocean and the winds reverse (one ...