Many deserts face worsening droughts, but India's Thar Desert has become 38% greener in the past 20 years due to increased ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has covered a lot of ground: some 14-thousand miles — on foot — through 21 ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...