(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.

For centuries, the Sahara Desert was not a barrier but a significant trade and cultural artery. This article explores the ...

This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is surrounded by migrating sand dunes that are capable of traveling more ...

They have opened up a whole new way to see this desert. In the southwest part of Libya, a region called Fezzan is the beating heart of the Sahara, an inaccessible place full of sand seas ...

Finding these intriguing little things seemed a daunting prospect as we set out into the vastness of the Sahara Desert. Yet with hundreds and hundreds of miles of golden sand stretching out before ...

Libya, a country whose landscape is dominated by the immense Sahara Desert, harbors a number of oasis towns. These towns are ...

The commander stops at a place where stones set in the soft sand mark out three ... and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg ...

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To combat these issues, Lei noted that green belts and solar-based sand control measures were ... project across Africa’s Sahara Desert. According to Lei, now that the Taklamakan Desert green ...

Snow has fallen in the Sahara Desert in north-western Algeria as temperatures ... But the snow on the red sand dunes in December 2016 did come as a shock. Residents of Ain Sefra said that it ...

Jeremy Maddocks is preparing for the Marathon des Sables in April, where he'll run 156 miles in six days in 50 degree heat, ...