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(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 ...
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.
The Sahara Sea was the name of a hypothetical macro-engineering project which proposed flooding endorheic basins in the Sahara with waters from the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea. The goal of this unrealised project was to create an inland sea that would cover the substantial areas of the Sahara which lie below sea level , bringing humid ...
The flooded grasslands and savannas are important habitat for water birds, including Palearctic migrants that over-winter here. The river prinia ( Prinia fluviatilis ) and rusty lark ( Mirafra rufa ) are resident birds which inhabit the Lake Chad flooded savannas and other wetlands in the Sahel.
The Persian Gulf region is known for its hot and dry weather, though heavy rains causing flooding have also occurred with greater regularity in recent years. [5] [6] Britain's Royal Meteorological Society stated that the likely cause is a mesoscale convective system. [7]
The first documented suggestion for flooding large parts of the Sahara desert was by French geographer François Élie Roudaire whose proposal inspired the writer Jules Verne's final book Invasion of the Sea. Plans to use the Qattara Depression for the generation of electricity reportedly date back to 1912 from Berlin geographer Albrecht Penck. [6]
The Bodélé Depression (pronounced), located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in north central Africa, is the lowest point in Chad. It is 500 km long, 150 km wide and around 160 m deep. [2] Its bottom lies about 155 meters above sea level.
‘The desert doesn’t absorb. It’s like a pool being drained onto a tile floor,’ one person commented on social media Burning Man fans share heartbreak as desert venue is flooded by storm ...