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

The red palm weevil can devastate the valuable date palm plantations of the Middle East ... are in the journal Blessed Tree. In the arid regions of the Near East and North Africa (NENA), where ...

Botanically the fruit is a drupe, not a nut. The palm tree has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,000 years. This began in the Middle East with the Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) but soon ...

If you close your eyes and picture the Middle East, windswept desert dunes probably ... of green—in the form of grasses, shrubs, and palm trees—against the orange and yellow-colored sandstone ...