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Astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) were recently able to capture this image of terminal Lake Fitri, in the southern sector of the Sahara Desert, Africa. The photo was snapped in January, and it displays a host of interesting properties associated with this landscape feature.
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20 February 2012
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that early humans may have left the Sahara Desert via Libya. At this point, there are several theories about how our ancestors left the Old Continent, but most of them have been questioned in recent times. Sub-Saharan Africa is widely and rightfully considered to b... |
5 July 2011
05:03 GMT |
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The most recent discoveries made in one of the most famous deserts in the world show that fish swam there in ancient times. The finding may hold additional pieces in the puzzle that seeks to explain how and why early humans emigrated out of Africa during the great migrations.One of the most important questions that r... |
29 December 2010
10:29 GMT |
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The giant desert we see on the world map spanning north and central Africa did not always look like this. Sahara was once a lush grassland, where herds roamed free and rivers ran rich with water. Finding out exactly how the change took place might yield clues to Earth's future. The general belief among experts ... |
21 December 2010
08:26 GMT |
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The Sahara Solar Breeder Project is, apparently, one gigantic renewable energy project, and if you have not heard about it before, know that its goal is to power half of the globe by 2050. The idea is to build a silicon manufacturing plant in the desert, and thanks to that silicon, to start building solar power plan... |
8 December 2010
10:22 GMT |
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According to new geological evidence, it would appear that a very large lake existed at the very core of the Egyptian Sahara desert many thousands of years ago. The body of water was impressive in size and depth, but desertification eventually subdued it.Data collected via radio instruments aboard the American space ... |
25 November 2010
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A mineralogical and chemical analysis of the 'terra rosa' soil in the Mediterranean, carried out by Spanish and American researchers, revealed that the mineral red dust came from Sahara and Sahel, in Africa.These two African regions emit 600-700 tonnes of dust every year, and this is what colored the soil i... |
12 November 2010
08:16 GMT |
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According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
04:57 GMT |
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Engineers have recently unveiled a plan that a few years back might have seemed like a joke – to build a wall to mark the spread of the Sahara desert, so that the dunes stop spreading over yet-unaffected ground. The problem appears all over the Saharan borders, as fields and families are being displaced by the ... |
24 July 2009
10:58 GMT |
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Anthropologists and paleontologists have known for a long time that the desolate stretches of inhospitable sand that make up the Sahara desert hide a large number of amazing artifacts, dating from as far back as the age of the dinosaurs. While other excavation sites revealed the ancient history of Egypt, a particular... |
17 December 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Archaeologists uncovered remains of what they think was part of a wider network of water channels that ran through the Sahara desert thousands of years ago. Visible only from satellite, the channels could have offered H. sapiens a safe path out of Africa, where the first humans evolved. Other pieces of evidence sugge... |
15 October 2008
02:47 GMT |
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The lack of rain on Saharan soil has been linked to the presence of two newly-discovered iberulites in the atmosphere above the desert. The two types of microscopic dust specs tend to bind to the water in the air and cause little humidity, as well as little chances for heavy rain over the desert. The particles are em... |
6 October 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Today, Sahara is a huge desert area, with erratic dunes (ergs) and plains covered by rugged rocks (hamada), punctuated by mountains with heights of up to 3,400 m (11,000 ft), covering 8.8 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), a surface bigger than that of Australia. At great distances one from another... |
9 May 2008
05:03 GMT |
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At the beginning of the 17th century, a Berber tribe took refuge in a totally arid area in the heart of Sahara, 400 mi (640 km) south of Alger. The oued (temporary desert river) called Mzab, which irrigates the plateau and the dry valleys once a year, gave its name to the region and the people established here were c... |
11 April 2008
09:23 GMT |
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The Tuareg makes you think about freedom, power and the vastness of the desert; Wolkswagen found its inspiration in the qualities of the proud nation of the Sahara. The Berbers, together with the ancient Egyptians, are the oldest group which settled in North Africa, coming about 10,000 years ago from southwestern Asi... |
26 June 2007
16:16 GMT |
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