The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand dunes form on beaches and in deserts. While the formation of large desert ...

Wildlife volunteers have come up with a novel way of battling coastal erosion - using old Christmas trees. Thousands of the ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

Lençóis Maranhenses, located in northeastern Brazil's Maranhão state, is a unique national park unlike any other desert in the world. Spanning over 1,500 square kilometers, this vast expanse of ...

To see Frank Dudley’s “Across Wind Blown Sands (Indiana Dunes)” is to be transported to the bright shores of Lake Michigan. The lake’s blue and green expanse is glimpsed in the hollow space between ...