(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.

Meteorologists have stated that these levels of rain have not been seen in this ... In an unprecedented turn of events, regions of the Sahara Desert have been inundated by severe rainstorms.

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 ...

Analysis of stalagmite samples from caves in southern Morocco has provided new insights into rainfall patterns in the Sahara Desert in the past. Researchers from the University of Oxford and the ...

TASS/. Dust from the Sahara Desert is giving rain in Ukraine a yellow hue, the State Emergency Service reported. "Today colored rains started in Ukraine. You should not be afraid. Dust from the ...

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 ...

Human communities have pulsed here like the explosion of plants after a rare rain. When moist ... Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent ...

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.