and ancient channels testify that rivers ran in the center of the desert. Climate change has been like an on-off switch in the Sahara. In dry times the lakes dwindled and the plants declined to ...

The rain not only filled ancient lake beds but also replenished ... even if only for a fleeting moment. The post Sahara Desert Struck By Flood, Filling Lakes That Have Been Dry for 50 Years ...

(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.

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.

The ancient Saharan city of Chinguetti ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. Still, in Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences that officials have ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... "What's also fascinating is that normally dry lakes in the Sahara are filling due to this event," Moshe Armon, a senior lecturer at the Institute ...

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and ... rather than areas deep in the Sahara Desert. In Chinguetti, a changing climate is ushering in many of the consequences ...

It's a surreal image left by the heavy rains that fell in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara ... So, the old desert lakes will come back to life.” ...

Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches ... flowing across the surface of ancient Mars, but it was uncertain if that water ever pooled to form lakes or shallow seas," John ...