The Sahara Desert, known for its extreme dryness and harsh climate, has experienced flooding for the first time in decades, ...

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A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had seen in ...

Despite its vast expanse of sand, the Sahara is not the largest desert on the planet, that distinction goes to someplace with ...

Water Gushes Through Palm Trees and Sand Dunes After Rare Rain in the Sahara Desert RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into ... continues to heat up the planet and disrupt the water cycle. CNN’s Brandon Miller contributed to this report.

An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s more arid regions, the Associated Press reported.

Flora tends to sprout quickly once the typically dry landscape gets water. One of the driest regions ... of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone ...

Parts of the Sahara desert are dramatically greener than usual, while the Atlantic hurricane season has been slower than expected. It turns out these two developments are both linked to an ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than ...