The Sahara is the world's most famous desert, a land of rolling dunes through which camel caravans once roamed from Marrakech to Timbuktu and beyond. At roughly 3.3 million square miles, and occupying ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

The fascinating but little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a pleasant green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world. Green Sahara. (Collage by Kuat Abeshev.

When many people envision deserts, they picture scorching, arid landscapes adorned with sand dunes and perhaps a few cacti. However, not all deserts fit this stereotype, and not all are characterized ...

The Rub' al Khali is unforgiving terrain. Stretching across the southern Arabian Peninsula, it spans several countries and ...