An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, hindering the dispersal of animals between Africa and Eurasia, and is at least eleven million years old. How did ...

Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems, researchers show recurrent humid intervals in the central Arabian interior over the past 8 million years. (Paul Breeze/The Green Arabia Project) (CN ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

Long before the Arabian Desert became an arid expanse, it was a fertile crossroads for early humans making their way out of ...

But what do we really know about the desert ecosystem in this part of the United Arab Emirates? I’m here in one of the world’s largest hot deserts - the Arabian Desert. It’s located between ...

The UAE's first national park sits on the outer edges of the city, and occupies about 87 square miles of the Arabian Desert. The reserve acts as a research unit, but travelers are allowed to ...

The Saudi Heritage Commission has unveiled new evidence of recurrent humid periods that shaped the Arabian Peninsula’s ...

The world's largest construction project is carving a path through the Saudi Arabian desert, but will the 170-kilometer-long megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality? Journalists cannot ...

The picture shows a cave in the north of Saudi Arabia. The Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced repeated wetter periods over the past eight million years. Wetter conditions favoured the exchange of ...