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 ...

Desert Rub’ Al-Khali Is the Largest “Sand Sea” in the World, but It Was a 138-Foot-Deep Thriving Lake 8,000 Years Ago Earth ...

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

on Wednesday unveiled 14 new oil and natural gas discoveries in the Eastern Region and the vast Empty Quarter (Rub' Al Khali), marking a significant milestone in the Kingdom’s energy exploration ...

In a major boost to its upstream ambitions, Saudi Arabia has announced the discovery of 14 new oil and gas fields and reservoirs across the Eastern Province and the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter).

Reference: “Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert” by Abdallah S. Zaki, Antoine Delaunay, Guillaume Baby, Negar Haghipour, Cécile Blanchet, Anne Dallmeyer, Pietro ...

Two teenagers were on Tuesday found guilty of manslaughter in relation to the death of 80-year-old Bhim Sen Kohli, who died following an "unprovoked" assault while out walking his dog in a park ...

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 ...

Scientists managed to reconstruct the ancient landscape of the Rub’ al-Khali, providing evidence of the existence of an extinct hydrographic network and a large lake that transformed this desert into ...

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 : ...

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

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of Science ...