April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places ... about 14,500 to 5,000 years ago, it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming ...

But what if, in the next minute, poof, they all ... as the land dries up. Within a few years, eroding soil may kick up giant dust storms like the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. Meanwhile, Earth's climate ...

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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.