Egypt
- Travel: Camping In The Western Desert Of Egypt
Thanks to Ben for posting my article about the task of preparing for a holiday which includes several days camping in the Western Desert of Egypt on his All About Egypt website. He has organized it into 5 sections, with photographs: Desert travel http://www.all-about-egypt.com/sahara-desert-travel.html...
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Climate Change In The Prehistoric Sahara
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article625034.ece This article summarizes and includes extracts from a book about the impacts of climate change - The Last Generation by Fred Pearce, published by Transworld . The write-up also offers a brief...
- Update - Egypt's Ancient Climate
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-40064.html Another article about research being taken out in order to understand Egypt's climate around 130,000 years ago. It is hoped that the research could shed light on the...
Egypt
Prehistoric Sahara teeming with life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.html
This may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn by a number of research groups in the Western Desert: "The Sahara has not always been the arid, inhospitable place that it is today – it was once a savannah teeming with life, according to researchers at the Universities of Reading and Leicester. Eight years of studies in the Libyan desert area of Fazzan, now one of the harshest, most inaccessible spots on Earth, have revealed swings in its climate that have caused considerably wetter periods, lasting for thousands of years, when the desert turned to savannah and lakes provided water for people and animals. This, in turn, has given us vital clues about the history of humans in the area and how these ancient inhabitants coped with climate change as the land began to dry up around them again. In their article ‘Ancient lakes of the Sahara’, which appears in the January-February issue of American Scientist magazine, Dr Kevin White of the University of Reading and Professor David Mattingly of the University of Leicester explain how they used satellite technology and archaeological evidence to reveal new clues about both the past environment of the Sahara and of human prehistory in the area".
See the full article on the Innovations Report website for the full story.
For those interested in the original paper, the American Scientist's website is at:
For those interested in the original paper, the American Scientist's website is at:
http://www.americanscientist.org/
- Travel: Camping In The Western Desert Of Egypt
Thanks to Ben for posting my article about the task of preparing for a holiday which includes several days camping in the Western Desert of Egypt on his All About Egypt website. He has organized it into 5 sections, with photographs: Desert travel http://www.all-about-egypt.com/sahara-desert-travel.html...
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Climate Change In The Prehistoric Sahara
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article625034.ece This article summarizes and includes extracts from a book about the impacts of climate change - The Last Generation by Fred Pearce, published by Transworld . The write-up also offers a brief...
- Update - Egypt's Ancient Climate
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-40064.html Another article about research being taken out in order to understand Egypt's climate around 130,000 years ago. It is hoped that the research could shed light on the...