After weeks of rain, desert turns green in the UAE

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After weeks of rain, desert turns green in the UAE

Beauty of UAE greenery, through the lens of Gulf News photographer Ahmed Ramzan

Published: January 27, 2020 19:11 Ahmed Ramzan, Photographer and Compiled by Jay Hilotin, Senior Web Editor, Nathaniel Lacsina, Digital Content Producer

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY212343-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1532-(Read-Only) — Plants growing in the desert outside Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY122-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY3-(Read-Only) — Tephrosia apollinea in the mountains on Gragah-Ghub Road towards Dibba, Fujairah after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1091-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1424-(Read-Only) — Camels feed off an emerging greenery on Emirates Road en route to Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1 — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY142 — Green fields dot the desert: They are emerging on either side of Digdaga Road in Ras Al Khaimah, in the northern United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY133-(Read-Only) — Goatherders tend to a herd of goats in a patch of greenery growing in the desert of Ras Al Khaimah. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1223-(Read-Only) — Eremobium aegyptiacum in the desert of Dubai after weeks of light to heavy rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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Plants at the desert in Falaj Al Mualla after rains in United Arab Emirates. — Camels feed off green cover emerging in the desert in Falaj Al Mualla in Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY123-(Read-Only) — Flights of fancy: A flock of seagulls gather near Dibba, Fujairah, after weeks of light to heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY44-(Read-Only) — Plants at the mountains on Gragah-Ghub road going towards Dibba Fujeirah after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY173-(Read-Only) — Birds in the desert of Umm Al Quwain as plants are seen emerging in the desert after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY163-(Read-Only) — Plants in the desert near Falaj Al Mualla, in the emirate of Umm Al Quwain, UAE. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY2145-(Read-Only) — Wild Tephrosia apollinea, a legume species native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa, growing in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY217444-(Read-Only) — Greenery growing in the mountains of Khor Fakkan, after weeks of showers in the United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY216322-(Read-Only) — Rhazya stricta in the mountains of Khor Fakkan, UAE. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY21452-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY213-(Read-Only) — Greenery in the mountains of Dibba, a city in the emirate of Fujairah, located on the northeast part of the United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1775-(Read-Only) — 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. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1722-(Read-Only) — A patch of greenery in the mountains of Dibba Al-Fujairah, the second-largest city in the emirate of Fujairah after Fujairah City. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY2133-(Read-Only) — Forskelia tenecissima in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah after weeks-long episodes of rainsshowers in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY21132-(Read-Only) — Asphodelus fistulosus in the mountains of Dibba, Fujairah. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY2131-(Read-Only) — Plants at the desert of Ajman after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY219-(Read-Only) — Camels seen from Emirates road going towards Ras Al Khaima with the greenery in the desert after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY218-(Read-Only) — Forsskaolea tenacissima at the mountains on Gragah-Ghub road going towards Dibba Fujeirah after rains in United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY1711-(Read-Only) — Greenery emerges in the valley off Digdaga Road in Ras Al Khaimah, northern UAE. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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WEB-200127-UAE-GREENERY216-(Read-Only) — Wild greenery growing at the foot of Dibba-Al Fujairah moutains after an episode of rainshowers in the United Arab Emirates. Image Credit: Ahmed Ramzan/ Gulf News

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