Last summer, Stephanie McNamara got her first glimpse of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado.

Deserts, defined by low rainfall and arid climates, cover nearly one-third of the planet’s land surface, shaping both ...

RIYADH — The National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification, in collaboration with Aramco, successfully sowed approximately 50 million seeds of native plant species — ...

Take a flight of discovery high above Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial ...

Set deep in Abu Dhabi’s Rub Al Khali desert, IHG’s Vignette Collection turns its back on the expected. No glitter, no excess. Just wide-open dunes, deep stillness, and experiences designed to ...

A Landscape in Flux The geological features found in the Rub’ al Khali suggest this was no simple story of slow desert greening. Instead, dramatic and repeated changes occurred.

We needed equipment that could look under the sand." The Arabian Desert has been inhabited since the early Ice Age, with Neolithic and Paleolithic tools found in the southwest Rub' al-Khali.

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret. In ...

The desert Rub’ al-Khali—also known as “The Empty Quarter” in English—is the perfect example of this.

It’s hard to believe that some of the driest, hottest places on Earth were once luscious green centers of biodiversity. The desert Rub’ al-Khali—also known as “The Empty Quarter” in ...