Dust from the Sahara Desert, once a massive lake, travels across the Atlantic Ocean. This dust, rich in potassium and iron ...

The Sahara is known for being one of the driest places on Earth, but in fact, it can actually flood. Those floods aren't ...

The Antarctic Polar Desert is officially the world’s largest desert, covering a staggering 5.5 million square miles. That makes it almost twice the size of the Sahara, which spans 3.5 million ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...

A thick Saharan Dust cloud will reach Central Florida this weekend, causing hazy skies and possibly triggering "dirty" rain.

The desert is where the Earth's coldest temperature ever was recorded and some areas haven't seen rain in more than 14 ...

Wellcome Collection’s enthralling show explores man’s search for water, capturing the precious resource’s terrible lack and ...

Human beings can be a wonderfully creative species. We can also be very good at destruction, including of other species and ...

Above most of Europe there's an intense field of high air pressure that prevents the penetration of rain-bearing clouds from the north while at the same time bringing a warm air mass from the north of ...

The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...