Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

Ninety-five percent of Libya is desert, 20 percent is dunes, and not a single perennial river runs through it. The Libyan Sahara holds the ... It's hard to imagine, but a lake the size of En ...

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

A new study recently published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, provides new insights into the meteorological ...

For over five decades, the Sahara Desert remained a hot ... also showed water from the historic rainfall rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui, a famous lakebed between Zagora and Tata, that had been ...

named Lake Iriqui, [[ee-REE-key]] between the Zagora and Tata regions, where the water has returned, as Nasa images have shown. So, the old desert lakes will come back to life.” Six consecutive ...