Why is there a Sahara drought?

Question

I am working on a social studies project and I have to find out when the drought started and how we as citizens of the world can help stop the drought?

Answer 1

The Sahara desert is the worlds largest desert. It reaches from the Atlantic ocean side, to the Red Sea. It is over 5,200 miles long. In total it covers more than 3,500,000 square miles. In the west the Sahara is very rocky with unsettled ground. It has many underground rivers. The central region has more elevation then others. The Libyan desert isn't eastern Sahara. It is very dry. The climate in the Sahara is very dry and hot. It becomes hot during the day, and turns cold at night. It has an average of 8 inches of rain each year. It has a small population of 2 million people due to the little rain fall.

The Sahara desert covers most of North Africa, one third of the continent. Some areas can be for several years with not one drop of rainfall. They are many wind storms, causing lots of dust and sand to blow everywhere.

Both the Nile and the Niger rivers cross through the Sahara. They support most of the deserts human population.

The boundaries of the Sahara are the Atlas mountains and Mediterranean sea on the north. The Atlantic Ocean on the west. The Red Sea and Egypt, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south.

Answer 2

The Sahara is the largest desert of the planet. It is so hot that the rain evaporates before it reaches the ground. What drought in the Sahara? Drought is a perennial problem there. You can only drill for water. As citizens of the world we can do nothing impressive about it

Answer 3

The Sahara "drought" is in northern Africa. You can stop the drought by moving the entire Sahara to more temperate regions.

Answer 4

The Sahara has been arid for millions of years. It, like most of the world's major deserts, is under the downward leg of the Hadley circulation -- the great atmospheric movement in which hot moist air rises from the tropics, throwing lots of rain, then moves toward the poles and descends in the vicinity of 30 degrees north and south. As it descends, it gets hotter and drier. It is obvious from the foregoing that humans can do basically nothing about the general problem. However, desertification of additional land in that area is encouraged by human activities such as cutting trees for fuel, and it is at least conceivable that human activity could ameliorate that. What such activities might be I shall have to leave to your imagination; nothing that I can think of is cheap enough to be useful, and this is in the poorest parts of the world where cheap is essential.

Answer 5

look at wikipedia, it will give you history and data.