An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which shaped its geography. The Empty Quarter (Rub al-Khali), the vast desert ...

the Saharo-Arabian Desert currently limits animal movement and divides Africa and Eurasia. For 8 million years in its earlier history, however, the landscape teemed with green rivers and lakes that ...

In 2021, while revelers across America celebrated the fourth of July, three researchers waded through a shallow river delta in the New Mexican desert. Abby Eckland, Irina Overeem and Brandee ...

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions ...