In 1874, Captain Francois-Elie Roudaire, a geographer in the French army proposed a daring idea. No doubt inspired by the successful completion of the Suez canal a few years earlier, he suggested the ...
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The Sahara was green and dotted with lakes within human memory
Between roughly 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, the Sahara was not the barren sand sea familiar today. It was a green expanse of ...
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Dreams of a Sahara Sea : The ambitious canal project that could have transformed the Maghreb
The idea may seem wild: digging a canal from the Atlantic, somewhere south of Morocco, to flood part of the Sahara and create an inland sea. Yet, this project has been seriously considered several ...
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The Sahara Desert may be millions of years older than scientists thought, researchers report in the Sept. 18 Nature. The team’s climate reconstruction suggests that the desert formed 7 million years ...
The Sahara Desert is vast, generously dusty, and surprisingly shy about its age. New research looking into what appears to be dust that the Sahara blew over to the Canary Islands is providing the ...
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