Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

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

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Gypsum dune fields at White Sands National Monument within the Chihuahuan Desert and the Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, New ...

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A new study adds evidence to theories that this region was once a wet, green climate.

Hotel construction and public art projects already are changing the vast desert landscape of Al-Ula in the country’s northwest.

Mineral deposits in limestone caves show that the now arid interior of Saudi Arabia repeatedly experienced increased rainfall ...

"At the time, Takarkori was a lush savannah with a nearby lake, unlike today's arid desert landscape," said archaeogeneticist Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

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 ...