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An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...
A tree grows in an arid region where the water table is just below the sand in Oman's Rub al Khali desert. Petraglia is a senior author of the study, published in Nature. He has worked on the ...
“This finding raises intriguing questions about the dispersal routes and ecological adaptations ... found in Oman is the Rub’ al Hkali, the “largest continuous sand desert in the world ...
Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to ... Liu et al., 2006). Strengthening summer ...
A climatic record from desert speleothems shows that the central Arabian interior experienced recurrent humid intervals over the past 8 million years, which likely facilitated mammalian ...
Military courts: The front line of Uganda’s war on dissent Used to prosecuting civilians, Uganda’s military courts help entrench repression ahead of the 2026 elections.
“Oman is like stepping into a dream — the scent of frankincense, the warmth of its people, the beaches and the silence of the desert... We fell in love instantly.” So says Andrea Habenreich, who, ...
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