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 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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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 ...
Discover the history and engineering behind a massive Sahara Desert megaproject - creating an inland sea twice the size of Utah's Great Salt Lake, with strategic, economic, and humanitarian benefits.
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