Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

The Western Sahara is the most sparsely populated territory in Africa, much of it desert. On the surface, it appears to have ...

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of Western Sahara and its Indigenous people, the Sahrawi. The Sahrawi ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

Keen-eyed internet sleuths have spotted what they claim is a 'flying saucer' buried in the Sahara Desert.

View the latest weather forecasts, maps, news and alerts on Yahoo Weather. Find local weather forecasts for Laayoune, Western Sahara throughout the world ...

I trekked through the Sahara Desert with my in-laws after only meeting them a few times. I was nervous, but it was a fantastic trip.

"One of the more difficult places to visit is the sparsely populated territory known as Western Sahara," writes John P. Smith ...

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

I went to a meeting in Abuja with the visiting Western Sahara –Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic- Foreign Minister. It was arranged by Ambassador Brahim B. Buseif, the country’s ambassador in ...

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