Tell people you are traveling to North Africa and chances ... to the Sahara," is where most desert journeys begin. This small settlement grew around a huge palm oasis (there are over 500,000 ...

Stone tools and rock carvings discovered in the Nefud Desert in Northern Arabia show humans ... to the success of this species in the Middle East and North Africa,' says Shahina. A date palm tree in ...

Residents, seemingly resigned to their fate, speak of the desert as an inevitable destiny ... it increasingly difficult to nourish their palm trees, and now have to pipe in water from tanks ...

As the rain flowed over the desert terrain, it created a new, watery landscape amid the palm trees and scrubby flora ... in green as storms pushed further north than usual, a phenomenon some ...

For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands ... with wispy tamarisk trees lining the road on the north bank of the river and palm plantations spreading out to ...