I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition ... Nor did I realize the allure of dunes. Once I started flying in the desert, I came under its spell and began what ...

Imagine standing in the heart of a sun-scorched desert. The wind hushes, the world holds its breath, and suddenly, a deep, ...

The Southern Namib Desert is a region in Namibia that covers an area of approximately 81,000 square kilometers. It is part of ...

Ralph Bagnold, a Cambridge-educated engineer in the British Army, explored the Sinai and Sahara on leave before drafting his 1941 masterwork The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, which is ...

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

Only a small group of plants are capable of colonising sand dunes (Hesp 1991). Nevertheless, in contrast to most desert dunes, vegetation usually plays an important role both in the initial ...

Water rushing between the sand dunes of southern Morocco. In desert communities frequented by tourists, 4x4s motored through the puddles and residents surveyed the scene in awe. It's a surreal ...

Wearing a helmet and strapped securely into his four-wheel-drive, Abdelilah al-Rabea tore off across the Saudi desert, kicking up clouds of sand as a crowd of hundreds cheered him on. Every year ...

A new video shows it handling brutal Australian desert conditions without a hiccup, while charging up sand dunes. We'll probably never get the Shark here, but I hope someone gets a PHEV truck to ...

has been a desolate and hostile desert, holding secrets of lost civilisations buried under its seemingly endless dunes. This is the world's largest continuous sand desert and has long remained ...

Wearing a helmet and strapped securely into his four-wheel-drive, Abdelilah al-Rabea tore off across the Saudi desert ... of oil on the sand and track marks scarring the dunes.