Scientists studied sediments and landforms in the region to determine where these floods were coming from. They concluded that the wet periods that contributed to filling the anci ...

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

Soar over the Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial footage as the drone glides ...

The paper "Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub' al Khali Desert" has been published in Communications ...

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

Khali—known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that makes this vast expanse in the southern Arabian Peninsula one of the most ...

Riyadh: Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz announced Wednesday the discovery of natural gas ...

At first glance, it’s easy to understand why the expansive red sands of Rub’ al-Khali translate to “empty quarter” in Arabic. One of the largest continuous deserts on the planet ...

In a major boost to its upstream ambitions, Saudi Arabia has announced the discovery of 14 new oil and gas fields and ...

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the world, but it was once filled with something quite different: water. And lots of it. Researchers suggest that the lake once reached up to 42 ...