The resulting summer monsoonal rains nourish the landscape ... drainage basin is the largest of North Africa, draining runoff from the eastern Sahara, Ethiopian highlands and equatorial East ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse ... and survival of life across this previously comparatively barren landscape. More information: Marco Gaetani et al, Mid-Holocene climate ...

The results confirm that during the African Humid Period (AHP), the Sahara received considerably more rainfall than today. This period saw a transformation of the desert into a green landscape ...

"At the time, Takarkori was a lush savannah with a nearby lake, unlike today's arid desert landscape," said ... climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the ...

Scientists believe that natural climate cycles, climate change, and human activities could potentially transform the desert into a green landscape again. Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...