During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

The new book, titled Reverent Flora: The Arabian Desert’s Botanical Bounty, features a collection of poetry that catalogues the Arabian Desert’s critically endangered and disappearing flora ...

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 ...

The world's largest construction project is carving a path through the Saudi Arabian desert, but will the 170-kilometer-long megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality? Journalists cannot ...

The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may ...

Archaeologists discovered a walled city in the northern Saudi Arabian desert that was likely home to 500 people as far back as 2,400 B.C. The experts believe the city’s roughly 1,000 years of ...

The UAE's first national park sits on the outer edges of the city, and occupies about 87 square miles of the Arabian Desert. The reserve acts as a research unit, but travelers are allowed to ...