The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study ...

Many people consider dessert to be a luxury — it’s decadent, caloric, indulgent, and frequently very, very chocolatey. But ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent ‘green’ periods in the past, as a result ...