Desert storm

Israel warns: Air pollution high on Sunday; minimize strenuous activity

Improvement in air quality is expected during the night hours in the northern and central parts of the country with the arrival of precipitation and changes in wind direction.

 Tourists on Mount Olives look at the foggy view of the Old City of Jerusalem on April 24, 2022, as a major sand storm hit across Israel.
In the Negev Desert, Israeli innovation offers the world ways to build resilient crops, water technologies, clean energy and other tools. Shown here, a solar energy field.

Desertification Day: How Israel could help solve the desertification crisis

 An Israel Police vehicle is seen at the scene where two bodies were found following heavy floods in southern Israel, April 11, 2023

Two Israelis' bodies found after flooding, stormy weather in South

Kalahari Desert

Desert regions may be best predictors of climate change in wetter areas, says Hebrew U


Scorpion surge endangers Egyptians in Aswan

Following heavy storms in the area, scorpions were forced out of their homes and into houses.

 Arizona bark scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus glowing under ultraviolet light.

The day Israel’s wars changed forever

This war was different, because this was not our tanks against theirs on some desert plain; rather, it was their missiles against our population centers, their rockets against our kindergartens.

Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister during the 1991 Gulf War, is flanked by then-defense minister Moshe Arens (left) and an unidentified officer

WATCH: Sandstorms cover Eilat in southern Israel

Photos and videos from around the web of today's massive sandstorm in Eilat, Israel.

General view of Eilat resorts

Should we make the desert bloom?

Is the desert ‘nothingness that needs to be conquered’ or a unique environment we should protect? The long ecological history of the Negev might hold the key to the answer.

The Negev desert

Dust Storm, or 'Haboob?' - Texans flip over weatherman's choice of terminology

The dust storm has settled - yet the controversy and headlines surrounding it are still making waves.

Storm.

No holds barred: The loneliness of the desert

How anything could be so utterly empty is simply astonishing. How modern technology can make it accessible is perhaps even more so.

ULURU IS LIT by the setting sun in the Northern Territory in central Australia