According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

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

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

The paper "Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub' al Khali Desert" has been published in Communications ...

Where the dynamic sand dunes witness the process of species adaptation to extreme physical environments ... offers a world-class panorama of the windblown sands of the Ar-Rub' al-Khali desert, with ...

The Arabian Desert, known today as one of the driest places on Earth, was once full of lakes, rivers, and green landscapes.

Where the dynamic sand dunes witness the process of species adaptation to extreme physical environments ... offers a world-class panorama of the windblown sands of the Ar-Rub' al-Khali desert, with ...

Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02224-1 Cite This Page : ...

Soar over the Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial footage as the drone glides ...