Saudi Arabia's usually sun-baked deserts have been transformed into an unexpected winter scene in recent days, as snow blanketed parts of the Al-Jawf region in the northern Al-Nafūd desert.

Illustrates how precipitation patterns have changed over the 5 past ~24,000 years across the Saharo-Arabian Desert. Credit: ...

Smothering southern Jordan, the vast Wadi Rum Protected Area epitomizes an Arabian desert scene. It's utterly silent, where the faint moans of a camel or a car careening over loose sands carry ...

The world's largest construction project is carving a path through the Saudi Arabian desert, but will the 170-kilometer-long megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality? Journalists cannot ...

One of the planet's largest, driest biogeographic barriers was once lush with rivers and lakes for 8 million years, which encouraged the movements of water-dependent animals and indicates the ...

A number of companies offer organized tours of the Empty Quarter; some of the more reputable options are Arabian Adventures, Emirates Tours, Abu Dhabi Adventure Tours and Abu Dhabi Desert Safari.

Former Royal Marines Commando Gareth Timmins looks at eight desert warfare scenes from movies and rates ... and has fought overseas in the Northern Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Aden/Somali Basin.