[GreyFriar]

SunkenCiv,

The Daily Mail’s headline took a different stance:

“Sahara turned from lush green grassland to a barren wasteland just 4,000 years ago and triggered a megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia for 1,000 years”

And that warming happened before fossil fuels were being mined/pumped and burned.

Cheers, G-F

Link to its article:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8650403/Sahara-turned-grassland-wasteland-4-000-years-ago-triggering-megadrought-Southeast-Asia.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! From the Sahara keyword:

• The ups and downs of a mega-lake (rest of this list posted here)
• Entomologist Confirms First Saharan Farming 10,000 Years Ago [2018]
• More Evidence of a Wet Sahara [2017]
• Fossil of massive crocodile found on edge of Sahara desert [2016]
• A Carpet of Stone Tools in the Sahara [2015]
• Ancient Africans used 'no fly zones' to bring herds south [2015]
• NASA video shows how dust from Sahara Desert fuels Amazon rain forest [2015]
• Violence and climate change in prehistoric Egypt and Sudan [2014]
• Ancient bone fragments help describe diet, health of Saharan ancestors [2014]
• Study Confirms Ancient River Systems in Sahara 100,000 Years Ago [2013]
• Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation and chemistry [2013]
• Lost Civilization Discovered in Sahara Desert [2011]
• Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought, discover Scottish experts [2011]
• Fish Swam the Sahara, Bolstering Out of Africa Theory [2010]
• Lost Cities of the Sahara [2010]
• Geology Picture of the Week Extra: GoogleEarth searcher finds pristine impact crater in Egypt [2010]
• Strange Ancient Crocodiles Swam the Sahara [2009]
• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain [2009]
• Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin [2009]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara [2008]
• In Search Of The Lost Sahara [2008]
• Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia, Study Says [2008]
• Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly: study [2008]
• The Tassili n'Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt ? [2008]
• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed [2008]
• UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara's prehistoric art [2008]
• Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis [2008]
• Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert [2007]
• Space Data Unveils Evidence of Ancient Mega-lake in Northern Darfur [2007]
• The African Source Of The Amazon's Fertilizer [2006]
• Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says [2006]
• Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated [2006]
• Ancient lakes of the Sahara [2006]
• Ancient drought 'changed history' [2005]
• Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Un Earthed In Sahara [2005]
• Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old) [2004]
• Scientists Explore Lakefront Property, in the Sahara [2004]
• African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields, Civilization Shifts [2002]