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The Sahara Desert Flooded For The First Time In Decades After Receiving More Rain In Two Days Than Normally Seen In A Year
Between September 7 and 8, intense rain fell in parts of the desert in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. The newly formed ...
A rare deluge could hit parts of the Sahara that almost never get rain this time of year
The Sahara Desert — one of the driest places on the planet, where rain is practically unheard of at this time of year — is ...
The world's oldest desert where it’s not rained in 200m years - not the Sahara
Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...
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The rain that comes from the Sahara
indicate that dust from the Sahara Desert, transported over hundreds of thousands of kilometers by winds over the tropical Atlantic Ocean to South America, help form the clouds responsible for 80% of ...
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Rare floods in the Sahara desert
In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...
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Unseen Sahara
Human communities have pulsed here like the explosion of plants after a rare rain. When moist ... Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ...
Cyprus Mail on MSN4d
Where did dinosaurs first evolve? Scientists are proposing a surprising location
Expert says research suggests that ‘they likely originated in the low-latitude regions of Gondwana near the equator, an area ...
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Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...
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Green Sahara: African Humid Periods Paced by Earth's Orbital Changes
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.