Dust from the Sahara Desert turned Athens orange yesterday as clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea caused the city's famous landmarks to look more like scenes from Mars. Strong southerly ...

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This story appears in the October 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. An ancient wind is coming up from a place called deep time. The Sahara strikes us as an eternal inferno of dunes and ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

"That night they tortured them behind ... threats of al Qaeda and drug smuggling in the Sahara, they needed to enlist the Tuareg. "The desert has no secrets from the Tuareg," he said, repeating ...