Saudi Arabia, once known for its vast arid deserts and lack of permanent rivers, has undergone an extraordinary transformation in agriculture over the past six decades. From just 400 km² of fertile ...

From the fjords of Musandam, a top diving destination, to the coastal beauty of Muscat's beaches, the mountain springs of the ...

Many may wonder whether the unusual weather is a consequence of climate change. The answer is, at least in principle, no ...

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

It’s a stark, mountainous moonscape deep in the Saudi Arabian desert. But it is about to become the world’s most exotic ski resort.

Saudi Arabia’s most vital resource after oil—water—is rapidly running out. The country relies heavily on the Arabian aquifer, formed 20,000 years ago, which is one of the largest fossil groundwater ...

A new study by planetary scientists at Brown University and the University of Bern in Switzerland casts doubt on one of the ...

Saudi Arabia, April 13 ... rely on extreme survival methods. They drank water from the car’s radiator to stay hydrated and ate leaves from desert plants to keep from starving.

From untouched island retreats to desert hideaways seamlessly carved into nature, Saudi Arabia is finding a place for itself on the luxury hospitality map ... to-four-bedroom water and beach ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ... A tree grows in an arid region where the water table is just below the sand in Oman's Rub al Khali desert. Petraglia is a senior author ...

Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems ... with hyperaridity in the northern Arabian margins starting about 9 million years ago, fossils and cave work indicate the existence of water for ...