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Nemcha, Zina and Zouina, three North African Sloughi hounds, play on the beach in Tunisia where their ancestors have long ...
Arabia's lush past revealed through mineral deposits, speleothems, and archaeological sites, challenging theories of human ...
Dark clouds rolling across the desert landscape is a rare sight: AlUla’s tranquil, pure blue skies are turned grey. But with this dramatic dulling comes the promise of life.
During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past ...
A poetic exploration of the surprising richness of the desert’s plant life is the latest publication about the natural world by Diana Woodcock, associate professor of English at Virginia ...
The disappearance of the Arabian Oryx from the Jordanian desert in the mid-20th century resulted from poaching and locust control campaigns. "Many Arabian Oryx were poisoned due to locust control ...
Dripstones reveal: The Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced repeated wetter periods over the past eight million years. Life-friendly desert: Wetter conditions favoured the exchange of mammals between ...
Bryce Dallas Howard plays an improv actor tasked to infiltrate a London criminal gang in Deep Cover. Read more at ...
The Arabian Desert is today a vast and barren landscapes. But humid periods over the last 8 million years may have brought ephemeral rivers and grasslands to the region, a new study suggests.
Saudi Arabia's Al-Jawf region experienced its first snowfall in recorded history, transforming the typically arid landscape into a winter wonderland. The unprecedented snowfall, preceded by heavy ...