New research has uncovered how powerful storms occasionally drench parts of theSahara Desert, forming short-lived lakes and ...

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

New research reveals that only the most intense Atlantic-sourced storms are responsible for filling a normally dry lake in ...

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

It was once filled with rivers, lakes, and grasslands, supporting wildlife and human settlements. Shivam Verma Updated : Mar ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.