In the heart of Dasht-e Kavir, a large desert in Iran, there is an enormous area of sand dunes known as Rig-e Jenn. At about 1,400 square miles, it is said to be one of the most impossible areas ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the desert to meet our camel team. We camped in the sand the last night before setting off into the dunes. I didn’t ...

A unique combination of sand and snow transformed a Colorado national park into an otherworldly winter wonderland, a stunning ...

Rajasthan, the land of kings, is home to some of the most mesmerising desert landscapes in India. The Thar Desert, also known ...

Colorado’s quadrant of the Four Corners is filled with secrets of the past in its rugged and sometimes desolate desert landscape ... head to the Sand Canyon South Trailhead in McElmo Canyon.

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 ...

dedicated sand control workers are busy mending and reinforcing defenses in the form of straw checkerboards — straw placed in a checkerboard pattern on the desert surface to secure dunes.

The phenomenon occurs about once a week in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, the park said on Facebook Feb. 5. “Snowfall doesn’t just cover the dunes — it transforms them into an ...