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.
It's actually not nice, not for local wildlife, for example. Biomes exist for a reason and if anything changes abruptly, evolution can't keep up with these changes, resulting in extinction of several species. Just like flowers are blooming in Antarctica, a rainy and green Sahara is as beautiful as a rose with thorns under its petals: really beautiful, but ominously dangerous.
Serious questions here. The world, by design, has arid zones around the tropics. If we heat up the planet, does that mean deserts pop up in other places? Like, will the Sahara and Cape Town turn green, but Spain and Italy and Argentina turn to desert? And if that’s the case, will hurricanes more often frequent New England, but less frequent Florida? Also, isn’t one of the major reasons we have hurricanes in the first place due to Sahara seeding them? If less desert then…?
Fun fact, it never left. It's been one of the most populous areas all along, and it's still the third most populous country in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia). It's just that it's not the only happening place anymore.
and finally, proof that the Sahara is not a desert. just like when it snows outside it's proof that global warming is a hoax, rainfall proves that deserts are a hoax. the Sahara is a rainforest, wake up sheeple.
I wonder if this is due to gobal climate change or local efforts towards sustainable farming and forestry to reclaim areas the Sahara has encroached on in recent years. Could be both.
Credit where due - this is a rare example of an article that contains pictures of the fantastical thing noted in the headline. Was this written by a journalism student or something?
Anyone else get irrationally angry when someone calls it the Sahara dessert? No, just me?
It bothers me because "Sahara" is Arabic for desert, so the headline to this article is calling it the desert desert, and apparently, that's a pet peeve of mine.
In my dialect in Norwegian, the word for another and tea is the same, so a direct translation one can use (and I have) when ordering a second chai tea is "Can I have tea tea tea?".
It's describing the type of desert by specifying its name. Even in situations where it's not rhe proper name (ie. chai tea), there are equivalent English formations (ie. "tea tea" to distinguish "traditional" tea from other varieties).