Namibia is one of the most sparsely populated countries on Earth, with a staggering 97% of its land remaining largely empty.

Mount Desert 365, a nonprofit organization on a mission to revitalize the Town of Mount Desert, invites town officials, ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

Scientists have uncovered a lost 5,000-year-old civilization buried beneath the sands, rewriting the history of the region.

Where to put people at least to give them a bit of shading.” Some of his staff have been told that their jobs will end as soon as June, but the crisis will not end in June. Local Sudanese groups, part ...

Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St Anthony – later known as the "father of all monks" – went there to live in an empty tomb, and was tempted by the devil.

Many commenters are fascinated by these videos because of the unsettling feeling that the empty desert evokes—especially at night—drawing on fears of cryptids like skinwalkers or serial ...

The southern and coastal regions are virtually uninhabited. The country is also full of otherworldly desert landscapes and wildlife that has adapted to some of the harshest conditions on the planet.

barren desert,” Michael Petraglia, a researcher on the study, said in the press release. “This is confirmed by abundant archaeological evidence found in the Empty Quarter and along its ancient ...

A bedouin camel trader wanders into the desert of the Empty Quarter, a desert that spans the Arabian Peninsula. While scientists think a green savannah may have allowed humans to easily cross the ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub' al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of ...