The skies over Europe recently took on a dramatic orange hue, leaving many residents staring in awe and sometimes confusion at the sky above. This ... Read more The post Sky Turns Orange Over Europe ...

A satellite image of a cloud of Saharan dust particles hovering over the UK has been released by the Met Office. The national ...

THE MET Office has released a satellite image showing a cloud of Saharan dust particles hovering over the UK. Some may have ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Sahara Desert, one of the driest places on Earth ... near the North African Atlantic coast with upper-level atmospheric patterns, creating conditions favorable for heavy precipitation events.

Article continues below Also referred to as 'blood rain', Saharan dust is a mixture of sand and dust from the Sahara - the vast desert area ... with southerly wind patterns. This satellite image ...

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 ...