(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.

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

Between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, the Sahara was covered with vegetation and lakes, according to a 2012 paper authored by ...

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 ...

Credit: Dr Julia Barrott. 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 ...

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.

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 ...