An oasis formed in the Moroccan area of Merzouga, thanks to the storm. AP The storm comes after six straight years of droughts. “It’s been 30 to 50 years since we’ve had this much rain in ...

Approximately 100 to 200 mm of water fell upon the dry desert, flooding and altering its sun-kissed hued landscape and arid climate, turning it into a tropical oasis with lake beds and lush, green ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Aridification, when a region becomes gradually and increasingly drier, turned the once lush oasis into the Sahara desert known today. Using genomic analysis, the researchers found that the North ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Dust blown from the arid expanses of the Sahara desert is regularly carried into the sky above parts of Europe, with harmful impacts on air quality. But recently there has been an eightfold ...

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 ...

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.