(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

The Sahara Desert, known today for its vast, arid landscapes, was once a fertile region teeming with life. A recent study ...

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Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... Between July and September every year, rainfall north of the equator in Africa increases due to monsoon season. Such stormy weather occurs when ...

The bounty of rainfall will likely help refill the large groundwater aquifers beneath the desert that are relied ... says the presence of water in the Sahara could profoundly alter weather ...

Credit: Dr Julia Barrott. Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara Desert in the past. Researchers from the ...

Capturing water from fog - on a large scale - could provide some of the driest cities in the world with drinking water. This ...

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 ... African monsoonal rainfall, and up ...

The brief spell of rain was too short to mitigate the longstanding ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded.