The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world. While deserts are traditionally characterized by a dry climate with low levels of vegetation, the Sahara has been ...

Credit: Climate of the Past (2024). DOI: 10.5194/cp-20-1735-2024 Another critical factor was the reduction in desert dust emissions, which decreased by 80%. With the darker vegetated surface, the ...

The mere mention of the Sahara often conjures an image of an unchanging, inhospitable desert fixed in its aridity ... Sahara profoundly influenced the climate of the Northern Hemisphere.

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... a dramatic climate change across North ...