China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had ...

Sand as far as the eye can see – that is the hallmark of Rub' al Khali. Andreas Drouve/dpa-tmn Morning settles over the world's largest sand desert, painting the landscape in golden light. Around the ...

Morning settles over the world’s largest sand desert, painting the landscape in golden light. Around the tent, dunes glow warmly, their peaks and ridges rising sharply into the clear blue sky.

A team of researchers based in Norway and Japan might soon have you walking on desert sand, no matter how far from the dunes you live. This group of engineers has developed a method to transform it ...

Despite vast deserts, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours rely on imported construction-grade sand to meet the demands of mega-projects like NEOM and the Burj Khalifa. Desert sand’s smooth grains are ...