(Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

(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 ...

A relentless giant is stirring in North Africa. The Sahara Desert, already the size of the continental United States, grows ...

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent since 1920. This shows a pressing environmental issue affecting the area. It now covers about 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), ...

Algeria's Tassili N'Ajjer plateau is Africa's largest national park. Among its vast sandstone formations is perhaps the world's largest art museum. Over 15,000 etchings and paintings are exhibited ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Sahara Desert is the world's largest hot desert and third-largest desert overall behind Antarctica and the Arctic. The Sahara spans over 3.5 million square miles across North ...

Between July and September every year, rainfall north of the equator in Africa increases due to monsoon season. Such stormy weather occurs when the tropical air from near the equator meets the hot, ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...