The recent rare snowfall in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jawf desert has left locals astonished and raised critical questions about the ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

Almost like a scene from Mars, or the Dune movies, astronauts aboard the International Space Station recently photographed ...

Get North to Paradise. North to Paradise is Ousman Umar’s extraordinary account of his journey from a small Ghanaian village to Europe, a five-year odyssey he began as a thirtee ...

This isn’t the first time I’ve been lost in a kasbah. But I’ve never been in one so large, nor one where there isn’t a single ...

A striking image taken from the International Space Station reveals the Erg Chebbi dunes in southeastern Morocco, part of the ...

Billed as the 'toughest foot race on the planet', it is six days running 250 kms (156 miles) across the endless sand dunes ...

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

Another effect of the unusual rains is the resurrection of Lake Iriqui, between Zagora and Tata. This water reservoir had ...

V iewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

Some 270,000 tones of white sand was transported from Western Sahara to create the artificial beach, which has become a star ...