Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert
Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert
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Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert
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and finally, proof that the Sahara is not a desert. just like when it snows outside it's proof that global warming is a hoax, rainfall proves that deserts are a hoax. the Sahara is a rainforest, wake up sheeple.
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we'll see how rare is the new "rare" event. Next thing you know Sahara is a well-known rainforest and amazon is the well-known desert.
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Those photos are gorgeous.
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Credit where due - this is a rare example of an article that contains pictures of the fantastical thing noted in the headline. Was this written by a journalism student or something?
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Woah. It's like a giant oasis! I feel like I'd want to swim in it! 😃
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Anyone else get irrationally angry when someone calls it the Sahara dessert? No, just me?
It bothers me because "Sahara" is Arabic for desert, so the headline to this article is calling it the desert desert, and apparently, that's a pet peeve of mine.
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No, but I get irrationally angry when someone calls a desert dessert.
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I'd fix it, but I am kind of enjoying this newfound power to affect your emotional state.
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La Brea Tar pits, Milky Way Galaxy, Lake Tahoe, El Camino Way.
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I was under the impression that Tahoe translates to "big water" which is funny.
But "Tar pit Tar pit", "Way Way" and "Desert Desert" are indeed infuriating.
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You forgot bo staff to refer to the quarterstaff that Donatello uses
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Meh, not everyone speaks Arabic and there are probably people who don't know that the Sahara is a desert.
Minor redundancies are a small price to share information with a wider audience.
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Are there fennec foxes in the Sahara desert? Please advise while I enjoy my naan bread
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It's describing the type of desert by specifying its name. Even in situations where it's not rhe proper name (ie. chai tea), there are equivalent English formations (ie. "tea tea" to distinguish "traditional" tea from other varieties).
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I hope they had swales ready to capture it
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Bad bot.
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Good news for any 10,000-year-old hunter-gatherers! It's back, baby!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
A green Sahara would be nice. Too bad it took a planet wide catastrophe to see it happen.
the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.
https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/
It's actually not nice, not for local wildlife, for example. Biomes exist for a reason and if anything changes abruptly, evolution can't keep up with these changes, resulting in extinction of several species. Just like flowers are blooming in Antarctica, a rainy and green Sahara is as beautiful as a rose with thorns under its petals: really beautiful, but ominously dangerous.
Serious questions here. The world, by design, has arid zones around the tropics. If we heat up the planet, does that mean deserts pop up in other places? Like, will the Sahara and Cape Town turn green, but Spain and Italy and Argentina turn to desert? And if that’s the case, will hurricanes more often frequent New England, but less frequent Florida? Also, isn’t one of the major reasons we have hurricanes in the first place due to Sahara seeding them? If less desert then…?
Egypt bout to make a comeback!
Fun fact, it never left. It's been one of the most populous areas all along, and it's still the third most populous country in Africa (after Nigeria and Ethiopia). It's just that it's not the only happening place anymore.