This unexpected deluge has reshaped the Sahara's landscape, including the dramatic reappearance of Lake Iriqui, a lake bed that had been bone-dry for 50 years. Satellite imagery from NASA vividly ...

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

Lake Iriqui, a lake bed between Zagora and Tata that had been dry for 50 years, was filled by the rainfall in images from ...