The location is called Guelta d’Archie and it served as a place where people and animals could stop for water thousands of years ago. It is in the Ennedi Region of Northeastern Chad, and if you wanted ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town in the Sahara.

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

The Ubari oasis, a circular pool reflected the azure blue sky above and the lush greenery of palm trees surrounding it, ...

A dancer from El Mihan, Algeria prepares for the Sebeiba festival dance competition in Djanet, a southeastern Algerian oasis town in the Sahara desert, on July 6, 2025. Audrey Thibert/AP.

Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, ...

Ubari, Libya is a surreal desert oasis where color-changing lakes shimmer amid Saharan dunes. Salt-rich, ancient, and ...

Aridification, when a region becomes gradually and increasingly drier, turned the once lush oasis into the Sahara desert known today. Using genomic analysis, the researchers found that the North ...

(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 ...

Sahara Desert is flooding after receiving a year's worth of rain in 2 days 00:18. A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...