A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

What do you picture when you think of the Sahara? A vast expanse of towering sand dunes? The occasional oasis, perhaps? But ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM, March 18 (Xinhua) -- A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are the main cause of lake filling in the northwestern ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.