This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

These bizarre scenes from the Sahara Desert show locals sledging down sand dunes after the heaviest snowfall in living memory. Photographers have taken incredible pictures this morning of ONE ...

A view of lakes caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern Morocco, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo) 30,546 people played the daily ...

A rare deluge of rain has left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara Desert ... one of the hardest-hit areas. An aerial view of lakes caused by heavy rainfall ...