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How climate change is turning the Sahara green
How does desert dust from the Sahara affect global climate?
colocynth camel caravan in the Sahara
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Kerzaz oasis on Wadi Saoura, western Sahara, Algeria.
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Mount Kenya in Mount Kenya National Park is the highest mountain in Africa. UNESCO World Heritage Site. Giant Lobelia in foreground. (Mt. Kenya; Mt. Kenya National Park; mountains; rugged mountain; African geography, African landscape, stratovolcano)
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Church of Saint George (Bet Giyorgis), Lalibela, Ethiopia. UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Arabian Camel (Camelus dromedarius) in the Sahara Desert sand dunes. (pack animal; sand; Morocco; Africa; African desert; mammal; dromedary; drought)
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How climate change is turning the Sahara green
Overview of the Sahara, including a discussion of the impact of climate change on...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Viktoria Ivanets/Dreamstime.com
How does desert dust from the Sahara affect global climate?
Overview of desert sand's effects on the climate, with particular focus on the Sahara.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Rapid Response Team/NASA GSFC
The journey of camel drivers from Sudan to Egypt
Watch Sudanese camel drivers lead a herd of dromedaries, or Arabian camels, through...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Journey of the Nile: The longest river in the world
Overview of the Nile River, 2009.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Dmitry Pichugin/Dreamstime.com

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sand dunes
Sand dunes in the Sahara, near Merzouga, Morocco.
iStockphoto/Thinkstock
Sahara
The Sahara is the world's largest desert; it extends across most of the northern...
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The Sahara.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Sahara
The Sahara, Morocco.
© dkorolov–iStock/Getty Images
Algeria: geography
The Ahaggar Plateau rises from the barren landscape of the Sahara in southern Algeria.
Geoff Renner/Robert Harding Picture Library
sand dunes
Sand dunes in the Sahara, Morocco.
Goodshoot/Jupiterimages
colocynth
A field of colocynth fruit, or bitter apple (Citrullus colocynthis), in...
© Guenter Fischer/Getty Images
camel caravan in the Sahara
Camel caravan in the Sahara, Morocco.
© Vladimir Wrangel/Shutterstock.com
Ghardaïa
The city of Ghardaïa, in central Algeria, is built around an ancient mosque with...
Bernard P. Wolff/Photo Researchers
Kerzaz oasis on Wadi Saoura, western Sahara, Algeria.
Victor Englebert
Moving sands in the Sahara near Al-Jadīdah, Egypt.
Georg Gerster/Photo Researchers
camel caravan
A camel caravan traversing the Sahara in Morocco. Until modern times, the camel was...
© Galyna Andrushko/Fotolia
Issaouane Erg
Issaouane Erg in the Sahara, eastern Algeria.
NASA (Astronaut photograph ISS010-E-13539)
sand dunes of the Sahara
Sand dunes of the Sahara desert.
© RosaFrei—iStock/Getty Images
Tuareg man; camel
A Tuareg man and a camel in the Sahara, Algeria, North Africa.
© Claire.B/Fotolia
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