“Come on Mom and Dad, what kind of MONSTER doesn’t let their kids have desert!”
Maybe someday people will be able to visit this amazing oasis in the desert.
At over 5,500,000 square miles, it’s also easily the largest desert in the world.
A plan to plant a wall of more than 66 billion trees 4,500 kilometers long to block desert expansion, shield against sand storms, and offset carbon emissions sounds great. So why did it fail?
Okay, now I need to go there.
Why is the sand on top of the snow though?
Designed by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg with interiors by John Vugrin
The Mauritania Railway consists of a single, 704 km (437 mi) railway line with trains up to 3km (1.8 mi) in length
From January to June, Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses national park turns into a desert oasis
The rare event was captured by Karim Bouchetata, just outside of the small Algerian town of Ain Sefra
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