And while most desert regions boast vast communities of mammals, insects, birds, and other creatures visible to the naked eye, complex assemblages of microbes also make the world's deserts ...

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

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

An epic lake that once covered a whopping 26million square miles is now home to one of the earth's youngest deserts. The Aral Sea once sat on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent ‘green’ periods in the past, as a result ...

Drylands meet the basic needs of a significant proportion of the world, but are under threat. They harbor some of the world's most valuable and rarest biodiversity. They are major contributors to ...