When people hear the word “desert”, they think of scorching heat, an extremely hot atmosphere, and unbearable temperatures ...

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades ... leaving behind a desert. The sea now sits at the border between Kazakhstan ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub' al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world's largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers -- mainly in Saudi Arabia -- it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...