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FenrirIII@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert

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Water gushes through sand dunes after a rare rainfall in the Sahara desert

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FenrirIII@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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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.
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    Good news for any 10,000-year-old hunter-gatherers! It’s back, baby!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

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      A green Sahara would be nice. Too bad it took a planet wide catastrophe to see it happen.

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        the sahara turning fully green could actually be another kind of disaster - parts of the food chain rely on dust from the sahara blowing over the atlantic to provide essential nutrient/minerals for smaller organisms that slightly less small organism feed on.

        https://www.popsci.com/environment/sahara-dust-atlantic/

        migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far away as the Amazonian basin

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      Egypt bout to make a comeback!

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    and finally, proof that the Sahara is not a desert. just like when it snows outside it’s proof that global warming is a hoax, rainfall proves that deserts are a hoax. the Sahara is a rainforest, wake up sheeple.

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      we’ll see how rare is the new “rare” event. Next thing you know Sahara is a well-known rainforest and amazon is the well-known desert.

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    deleted by creator

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    Anyone else get irrationally angry when someone calls it the Sahara dessert? No, just me?

    It bothers me because “Sahara” is Arabic for desert, so the headline to this article is calling it the desert desert, and apparently, that’s a pet peeve of mine.

    • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Chai tea

      • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        In my dialect in Norwegian, the word for another and tea is the same, so a direct translation one can use (and I have) when ordering a second chai tea is “Can I have tea tea tea?”.

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        Maki roll

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      La Brea Tar pits, Milky Way Galaxy, Lake Tahoe, El Camino Way.

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        I was under the impression that Tahoe translates to “big water” which is funny.

        But “Tar pit Tar pit”, “Way Way” and “Desert Desert” are indeed infuriating.

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      Are there fennec foxes in the Sahara desert? Please advise while I enjoy my naan bread

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      It’s describing the type of desert by specifying its name. Even in situations where it’s not rhe proper name (ie. chai tea), there are equivalent English formations (ie. “tea tea” to distinguish “traditional” tea from other varieties).

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    Information for Associated Press:

    MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
    Wikipedia about this source

    Search topics on Ground.News

    https://apnews.com/article/sahara-flooding-oasis-rain-morocco-2b6c28d2487a0ef370aff60775d0245d

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      Bad bot.

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