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An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...
Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.
The Arabian Desert presents a playground to thrill-seekers, comprising rolling dunes and breathtaking scenery. Among a myriad of adventure experiences, there is one stand-out experience at Dune Buggy ...
The picture shows a cave in the north of Saudi Arabia. The Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced repeated wetter periods over the past eight million years. Wetter conditions favoured the exchange of ...
Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems, researchers show recurrent humid intervals in the central Arabian interior over the past 8 million years. (Paul Breeze/The Green Arabia Project) (CN ...
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 ...
But what do we really know about the desert ecosystem in this part of the United Arab Emirates? I’m here in one of the world’s largest hot deserts - the Arabian Desert. It’s located between ...
An adventurer in the UAE has led a team of novices on camels 1,100km across the vast dunes and volcanic terrain of the Arabian Desert ... same paths. The scenery and the desert changes every ...
The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, hindering the dispersal of animals between Africa and Eurasia, and is at least eleven million years old. How did ...