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 ...
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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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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The Sahara Desert might soon be underwater
What if one of the driest places on Earth became home to the largest man-made lake in history? Deep in Egypt’s western desert lies the Qattara Depression, a vast, sunken basin that has fascinated ...
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 ...
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