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By Selena Li HONG KONG Asia stocks mostly held firm on Tuesday, despite weaker-than-expected Chinese economic data, with

It might sound more like the kind of idle daydream billionaires like Elon Musk would have, but could flooding the Sahara actually be the best way of tackling climate change in the future? The idea of creating a new “sea” in Africa is being discussed, and it’s not the first time that the notion of a great oasis in the Sahara has been discussed among the scientific community. As the ongoing climate crisis continues to worsen, the notion of flooding vast areas of the desert is being returned to once again [via IFL Science]. A new “sea” was first proposed following the study of the Messinian salinity crisis – which saw a dried-out area of the Mediterranean rejuvenated by the Zanclean flood, reconnecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean around 5.33 million years ago. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Given how the Mediterranean was transformed by the flood, the idea of flooding the Sahara to achieve similar results has been thrown around in the scientific community as far back as 1877, the Scottish engineer Donald McKenzie suggested flooding the El Djouf basin in Western Africa. The idea is now returning to popularity as the world looks for solutions to the climate crisis. One proposal centres on the Middle East’s Dead Sea and flooding the area using water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea Depression. A vast sea in Africa could represent a hugely innovative step towards tackling climate change and fostering a new hub of life – but even the people suggesting work such a project acknowledge just how expensive and dangerous it is. Even Y Combinator is a US startup accelerator who has described “desert flooding” as “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work”. Only time will tell whether the notion of a new sea in the Sahara coud ever work, or whether it’ll remain the stuff of dreams. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

By Lisa Pauline Mattackal and Medha Singh Move over dogecoin? "Memecoins" - a hyper-speculative, ultra-volatile and somewhat peculiar

Kyiv was targeted by an exceptionally dense attack of Russian drones, cruise missiles and possibly ballistic missiles early Tuesday in the eighth assault on the Ukrainian capital this month, a senior city military official said.

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK First-quarter U.S. company results are winding down, but investors will get one last

Singer Sandy Shaw was inspired by the midwife after hearing her on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Wellington fire commander Nick Pyatt says the blaze is the city's "worst nightmare".

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan Tuesday's a busy day for European

HANGZHOU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2023--

Elena Gordon's son Vladimir Kara-Murza was convicted of treason for criticising Putin's war in Ukraine.

Anti-nuclear activists are protesting to demand Japan scrap its plan to release treated but still radioactive water from a damaged power plant into the sea

Warren Buffett's conglomerate has sold its remaining shares in the world's largest chipmaker, TSMC, after the "Oracle of Omaha" sounded alarms about its homebase of Taiwan.