Green Sahara: How Climate Change Transformed the Desert

The Sahara is not a place you’d expect to catch many fish. But between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago fishermen thrived there as climate change pushed the monsoon northwards and turned the desert green and even blue.

For much of the past 70,000 years, the Sahara has closely resembled the parched desert it is today. But for several thousand years a dramatic warming turned it lush with vegetation.