After weeks of rain, desert turns green in the UAE
Beauty of UAE greenery, through the lens of Gulf News photographer Ahmed Ramzan
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A patch of green growing luxuriantly in the desert: Part of the Ras Al Khaimah desert, in northern United Arab Emirates, has turned green after weeks of rains.
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Plants growing in the desert outside Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Splendor of the desert: Falaj Al Mualla turns into a patch of green. Many parts of the UAE, including part of the Empty Quarter, saw light to heavy rains in the last few weeks.
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Tephrosia apollinea in the mountains on Gragah-Ghub Road towards Dibba, Fujairah after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Shadows of camels seen from a drone shot taken in Umm Al Quwain. The greenery is emerging in the desert after the UAE saw rainy conditions in the last few weeks.
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Camels feed off an emerging greenery on Emirates Road en route to Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
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Lush greenery grows in the valley at the foot of majestic mountains in Dibba, Al-Fujairah in the north-eastern part of the United Arab Emirates.
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Green fields dot the desert: They are emerging on either side of Digdaga Road in Ras Al Khaimah, in the northern United Arab Emirates.
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Goatherders tend to a herd of goats in a patch of greenery growing in the desert of Ras Al Khaimah.
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Eremobium aegyptiacum in the desert of Dubai after weeks of light to heavy rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Camels feed off green cover emerging in the desert in Falaj Al Mualla in Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates.
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Flights of fancy: A flock of seagulls gather near Dibba, Fujairah, after weeks of light to heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates.
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Patches of green emerge in Dibba, Fujairah. It's been raining in many parts of the UAE in the last few weeks, including sleet or ice pellets falling in Jebel Jais, the country's tallest peak.
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Plants at the mountains on Gragah-Ghub road going towards Dibba Fujeirah after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Birds in the desert of Umm Al Quwain as plants are seen emerging in the desert after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Plants in the desert near Falaj Al Mualla, in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain, UAE.
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Wild Tephrosia apollinea, a legume species native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa, growing in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
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Greenery growing in the mountains of Khor Fakkan, after weeks of showers in the United Arab Emirates.
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Rhazya stricta in the mountains of Khor Fakkan, UAE.
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Greenery in the mountains of Khor Fakkan, a city and enclave of the Emirate of Sharjah, located on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), facing the Gulf of Oman.
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Greenery in the mountains of Dibba, a city in the emirate of Fujairah, located on the northeast part of the United Arab Emirates.
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Reichardia tingitana in the mountains on Gragah-Ghub Road, en route to Dibba, Fujairah. The vast desert occupying much of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula used to be lush jungles.
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A patch of greenery in the mountains of Dibba Al-Fujairah, the second-largest city in the emirate of Fujairah after Fujairah City.
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Forskelia tenecissima in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah after weeks-long episodes of rainsshowers in United Arab Emirates.
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Asphodelus fistulosus in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah.
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Plants at the desert of Ajman after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Camels seen from Emirates road going towards Ras Al Khaima with the greenery in the desert after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Forsskaolea tenacissima at the mountains on Gragah-Ghub road going towards Dibba Fujeirah after rains in United Arab Emirates.
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Greenery emerges in the valley off Digdaga Road in Ras Al Khaimah, northern UAE.
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Wild greenery growing at the foot of Dibba-Al Fujairah moutains after an episode of rainshowers in the United Arab Emirates.
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