A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

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As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine and the risk of ...

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...

A low-pressure system is moving through northern Michigan on Wednesday, bringing cold temperatures, gusty winds, and snow. Between snow and wind, driving conditions will be hazardous, particularly on ...

The cover of AQAP’s Sada al Malahem magazine, from late 2024. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) attacked the headquarters of the 1st Support and Reinforcement Brigade in Abyan, a southern ...

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.” There are mysteries afoot, for sure. But a viewer will have the unavoidable suspicion that doom ...

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments approved the new regional calendar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, thereby granting new patron saints for ...

Arabian leopards, the smallest of the leopard subspecies have been heavily impacted by climate change, habitat destruction, poaching and a loss of prey in the last few years. Once spread out widely ...

Arabian Plate, gray tectonic map. Minor tectonic plate, consisting mostly of Arabian Peninsula. Together with the African and Indian plates it is moving northward, colliding with the Eurasian plate.