The silver ant is the Sahara’s true desert survivor. Snow in the Atlas mountains Deep snow covers cedar trees in the Atlas mountains, a rare view of North Africa.

North Africa is home to the greatest desert on Earth, the Sahara. This vast wilderness, the size of the United States, is the toughest part of the African continent – the sun rules mercilessly here.

The snow in the town of Ain Sefra - known as the gateway to the Sahara Desert - was only a light dusting. Shutterstock Temperatures in the town, which is surrounded by the Atlas mountains ...

(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.

The Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara Desert, modern-day Libya. (Van Neer et al ... Much of this evidence has been found in open-air sites scattered across the mountains, but more significant finds ...

Many migrants make the treacherous journey in the hope of a better life in Europe Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger ...

Thanks to its towering and undulating sand dunes and exciting desert-like activities, coupled with a unique mountain backdrop, Great Sand Dunes National Park is worthy of the moniker "the Sahara ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...