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Did humans create the Sahara desert?
Tadrart Acacus desert in western Libya, part of the Sahara.Photo: Luca Galuzzi New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may have played … Continue reading
6,000 years ago the Sahara Desert was tropical, so what happened?
As little as 6,000 years ago, the vast Sahara Desert was covered in grassland that received plenty of rainfall, but shifts in the world’s weather patterns abruptly transformed the vegetated region into some of the driest land on Earth. Now … Continue reading