(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.

Rare storms temporarily create lakes in the Sahara desert, revealing surprising moisture pathways and climate connections.

With this amount of sand coverage, there’s still plenty of opportunity for the formation of vast dune seas, known as ergs.

It was once filled with rivers, lakes, and grasslands, supporting wildlife and human settlements. Shivam Verma Updated : Mar ...

These findings suggest that projections of enhanced rainfall intensity and frequency in the Sahara could potentially reshape water availability in the desert. A new study supervised by Dr. Moshe ...

Dubliners may see dust from the Sahara Desert on their cars after rain showers this weekend. A plume of dust from the African ...

The Sahara Desert, located in West Africa ... which brought a downpour of rain to regions that hardly receive any, according to NASA's Earth Observatory. "What's also fascinating is that normally ...

In desert communities frequented by tourists ... in August and September have given a different face to the Moroccan Sahara, better known for its frequent droughts. Houssine Youabeb is the ...

The brief spell of rain was too short to mitigate the longstanding ... the world’s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic decline in megafauna”, the authors concluded.