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A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

and ancient channels testify that rivers ran in the center of the desert. Climate change has been like an on-off switch in the Sahara. In dry times the lakes dwindled and the plants declined to ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... "What's also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event," Moshe Armon, a senior lecturer at the Institute ...

A massive circular structure in the Sahara Desert has puzzled scientists for ... that the Sahara was once covered by rivers and lakes. What’s more, archaeologists have found ancient stone ...

So, the old desert lakes will come back to life ... Mr Youabeb says the presence of water in the Sahara could profoundly alter weather forecasts in the future. “There will be more evaporation ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

About two decades ago, African nations launched an audacious plan: a 7,700km “Great Green Wall” to hold back the Sahara Desert’s southward march. Yet years passed and progress was stalled ...

These lake-filling events were driven by precipitation ... knowledge gap and provides a framework for future studies on Sahara Desert hydrology and climate dynamics.

The Sahara Desert has not always been as dry as it is now, with prehistoric evidence showing the existence of wetlands. However, the exact sources of moisture for these ancient lakes have been ...