On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is a kind of dragon’s ...

Israeli shepherd outposts take 14% of West Bank, report says Herding communities under growing economic pressure Grazing land targeted ... by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war.

But increasingly severe cyclones, grazing by invasive goats ... at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh’s Centre for Middle Eastern Plants. “So you’ve got old trees coming down and dying ...