RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara ...

(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.

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take ... motorized travel in the Libyan Desert in the 1920s and ’30s.

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented ... have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts.

The rebel commander, his face hidden behind a dark turban, leads the way over the soft sand ... drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from ...

In the heart of Dasht-e Kavir, a large desert in Iran ... no water — just the crazy hills of insanely soft sand. Knowledge of the dunes has come from only the handful of researchers that ...

Parts of the Sahara Desert in Ain Sefra, Algeria, was covered in a layer of frost on December 29, as the region witnessed freezing temperatures. Footage captured by Karim Bouchetata shows the icy ...

Dromedaries, with their soft, velvety noses and ... Surfboards propped against a tent in a desert camp await those wishing to climb the Sahara dunes and sand-surf down. (Janet Podolak – For ...