Sahara Desert News

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  Europe Looks to Sahara as Source of Solar Energy

  By David Bois | Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:35 PM ET

  a forested, precipitation-making, planet-cooling, carbon-sequestering, living, green machine.It will be interesting to watch plans unfold for the Sahara Desert in terms of its role in an overall global climate strategy. Do we use the desert to harvest sunlight for clean energy? Do we transfor Read More

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  Bringing Terraforming Back Down to Earth

  By David Bois | Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:00 PM ET

  vast deserts has been kicked around ecological circles for some time, a team of scientists has determined that massive scale projects in the Sahara Desert and the Australian Outback are indeed daunting, but within our reach.The study arises through the efforts of cell biologist Leonar Read More

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  A Place in the Sun

  By Courtney Rubin | Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:30 PM ET

  for people, but for Londoner Susie Wheeldon, it wasn’t enough. Next up was the Marathon des Sables (six marathons back-to-back, across the Sahara Desert), which spurred her to her next feat: cycling around the world (about 12,000 miles), all in the name of promoting solar power."When Read More

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  The Miracle Women

  By Richard Bangs | Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:58 PM ET

  turns out their profuse roots seek out water even in high temperatures, and stabilize the soil and fight erosion, doing a part to keep the advancing Sahara Desert at bay. Back in the car we thunder the open country, and rise over a small hill to see the sheen of the Atlantic. During th Read More

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