A rare deluge of rainfall has left lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert. Some regions are seeing more water than they had in decades.
the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.
Good news for any 10,000-year-old hunter-gatherers! It’s back, baby!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
A green Sahara would be nice. Too bad it took a planet wide catastrophe to see it happen.
the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/
Egypt bout to make a comeback!