Feb. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1841, the first filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It ended March 11. In 1865, after a long Civil War siege, Union naval forces captured Charleston, S.C.

Deserts are known for heat, but recent years have seen snow in places like Saudi Arabia and Chile. The Atacama Desert, ...

In what can be described as unbelievable, snow fell in the Sahara desert for the first time in almost four decades. Well, for the first time in 37 years, snow has fallen in the Sahara. Awww what a ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

From Saudi Arabia's snowy dunes to the Atacama's white-capped plains, we list five deserts that experienced rare snowfall in ...

For a few fleeting hours Sunday, people perched in the arid heights of northwest Algeria caught sight of something rarely seen: the Sahara Desert, shrouded in white. Residents of Ain Sefra, a small ...

Orange snow has fallen in parts of eastern Europe after a rare meeting of Siberia and the Sahara. Meteorologists say the snow from Siberia collided with dust-filled wind from the Sahara desert in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court again backed President Donald Trump's hardline approach toward immigration on Monday, letting federal agents proceed with raids in Southern California targeting people for ...

Feb. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1841, the first filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It ended March 11. In 1865, after a long Civil War siege, Union naval forces captured Charleston, S.C.

Bob Geldof and Midge Ure are better musicians than they are meteorologists. Their 1984 Band Aid prediction that “there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime” has once again been proven wrong – ...