An extreme onslaught of rain in Morocco — about a year’s worth in two days — brought desperately needed water to some of the Sahara desert’s ... poured in a day. Lake Iriqui, a lake ...

The lake formed after a cyclone walloped parts of northern Africa in September, causing huge amounts of rain in the Sahara Desert. And now, it’s helping researchers study what the Sahara may ...

Lakes appearing in the Sahara desert captured in satellite ... show changes to the landscape, with a green lake appearing in the desert. The lake covered 74 square miles (191 square kilometers ...

The rain not only filled ancient lake beds but also replenished underground ... even if only for a fleeting moment. The post ...

Satellite images taken by NASA’s OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured the incredible moment Sebkha el Melah, a lake in the Sahara Desert, filled with water. Satellite ...

A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara ... castles and desert flora. NASA satellites showed water rushing in to fill Lake Iriqui ...

Many tourists who visited the Sahara motored... A vehicle transports tourists on sand dunes next to a lake caused by heavy rainfall in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... "At the time, Takarkori was a lush savannah with a nearby lake, unlike today's arid desert landscape," said archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause of the Max ...

There are also dry valleys and lake beds ... a year's worth of rain on the northwest Sahara in the space of just two days. This caused flooding in the desert for the first time in decades ...