(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 tropical islands could really benefit from the sand that lies almost 7,000 miles away. Because sandstorms that originate in the Sahara Desert can sometimes stop hurricanes from forming.

Desert sand is too smooth to bind to make concrete, so sand is taken from river beds such as the Mekong A crisis is engulfing the Mekong River, its banks are collapsing and half a million people ...

The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth, covering 3.5 million ... The Sahara is mostly known for its sand dunes, but it also features rocky plateaus, salt flats, and even mountains.

elbows and knees let them sit in the hot sand without burning their skin. It was mindbending for us to discover that the entire contiguous United States would fit into the Sahara, a desert shared ...

Greening the desert is no mean feat, with the cost and effort required to water the arid soil in hot weather. But a ‘magic sand’ that can breathe is proving to be a game-changer — reducing ...