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

The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara. The basin is enormous ... others for agroforestry or to help stabilize soils as desert encroachment is a big problem ...

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

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... Sign up The largest increase in greenness this year was in southern Chad, southern Sudan and Eritrea; parts of Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Eritrea ...

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 ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... evidence for past lake basins in the ...

For well over a decade, jihadist violence has plagued the Sahel, a semi-arid belt stretching along the Sahara desert's ... Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad -- in the Lake Chad Basin -- are ...