A rare deluge of rainfall has left lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert. Some regions are seeing more water than they had in decades.
Sand is a kind of soil. Actually, besides possibly salinity, deserts tend to be pretty fertile once you add water, because evaporation concentrates things.
It will again in the future, but not because of climate change hopefully. It’s originally caused by the earth’s axial tilt, and which way is pointing towards the sun during the Earth’s parihelion and aphelion.
During the ice age, the Sahara was savanna, and it’s though to be possible it could go back due to climate change.
That would be a nice silver lining on a mostly very bad mistake, I guess.
Isn’t there no soil there now?
Sand is a kind of soil. Actually, besides possibly salinity, deserts tend to be pretty fertile once you add water, because evaporation concentrates things.
It will again in the future, but not because of climate change hopefully. It’s originally caused by the earth’s axial tilt, and which way is pointing towards the sun during the Earth’s parihelion and aphelion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
I’m not making this up. It wasn’t caused by anthropogenic climate change before, obviously, but more than one thing can shift rains.