(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’s edge is now in places like Mali, where 65% of the land is desert or semi-desert. It’s growing 48 kilometers a year. Droughts make water scarce, hurting communities.

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press reported.

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

April 5, 2025 / 6:09 PM EDT / CBS News The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found.

An extratropical cyclone over the Sahara Desert drenched parts of Morocco and Algeria â bringing up to a yearâ s worth of rain to some areas. ð §ï¸ @nasa â s Terra satellite captured ...

Sahara Desert is flooding after receiving a year's worth of rain in 2 days A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United ...

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Four Saharan cheetahs have been photographed in Algeria as part of the first camera-trap survey of the central Sahara. Scientists have peeled away the sandy cloak blanketing Darfur�s ...

The desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and ...