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The Sahara Desert Today Vs 8,000 Years Ago (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Source https://brilliantmaps.com/sahara-desert-today-vs-8000-years-ago/

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lake Chad used to be Lake Giga Chad. It's currently a fraction of its former size.

[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's an ancient lakebed in Chad that supplies dust that blows across the Atlantic and delivers phosphorus to Amazon rainforests - phosphorus that is needed to support plant growth. Those long-dead organisms are still in the food chain. Life uuh finds a way.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the kind of stuff the "don't tell me what to do with my land" crowd doesn't know or care about. Everything affects everything on this planet.