Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased ...

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over a period of 8 million years, allowing for the occupation and ...

Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was ...

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

One of the planet's largest, driest biogeographic barriers was once lush with rivers and lakes for 8 million years, which encouraged the movements of water-dependent animals and indicates the ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and ...

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

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