In September 2024, satellite imagery confirmed another lake-filling event. Rainfall, fueled by the same type of large-scale cyclone patterns, reached far into the Sahara once again. This repeating ...

Lake Iriqui, a lake bed between Zagora and Tata that had been dry for 50 years, was filled by the rainfall in images from ...

A crucial factor in these events is the recycling-domino effect, in which moisture is progressively transported and enhanced over the Sahara before reaching the lake's drainage basin. The team ...

Geological evidence for past lake basins in the Sahara are commonly found near interdune depressions and other low-lying regions, where ancient lake bed sediment outcrops and shoreline deposits ...

A team of researchers from Israel and Switzerland has discovered that heavy rainstorms from the Atlantic Ocean are the main cause of lake filling in the northwestern Sahara today, the Hebrew ...

The normally dry northwestern Sahara lake, Sebkha el Melah, was filled for the seventh time since the beginning of the 21st century. This flood, in September 2024, which occurred after the study ...