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One of the driest regions on earth is shifting green, as an influx of heavy rainfall causes vegetation to grow in the typically barren landscape.

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept. 8.

Treeless landscapes in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya -- areas that rarely receive rain -- are now seeing traces of green sprouting up, according to the NASA Earth Observatory.

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[–] LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.ml 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Afaik it used to be the Saharan Jungle when the world was a few degrees warmer

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Will this help capture carbon?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The Amazon is doing the opposite and depends on dust from the Sahara being carried by air currents across the ocean so... It's not good.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You mean the Amazon is not helping to reduce carbon?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I mean that it's desertifying because of the deforestation, even if it stopped the forest wouldn't regenerate