coastal - Through the sandglass

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March 2016

March 2016 It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images , above...

March 1, 2016 5 min read

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A Reverence for Rivers (2)

Turn on the tap in your kitchen so that it’s running at a typical (if not particularly conservative) rate of around three US gallons per minute. Ensure that you...

January 1, 2016 14 min read

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January 2016

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

January 1, 2016 12 min read

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Time, Sense, and Landscape

I was delighted (and flattered) to be invited to participate in a multi-disciplinary symposium, held in Winchester in October, titled Chalk: Time, Sense, and La...

December 1, 2015 5 min read

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Exporting the desert – you may not want to read this

Among the possible reasons for not reading this might be It seems to be too absurd to be true It’s true, but it’s not a problem You are careful about your blood...

November 1, 2015 12 min read

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November 2015

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

November 1, 2015 11 min read

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Behold, Cataglyphis bombycina is an hairy ant

In writing The Desert book, I became acutely aware that, as a humble geologist, my knowledge has profound limitations. I am not a biologist, botanist, ecologist...

August 1, 2015 8 min read

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The Missing Sink: Carbon storage in the world’s deserts

Deep-rooted and completely erroneous preconceptions of our planet’s arid lands as sterile bit-players in the great game of the earth’s dynamic systems have long...

August 1, 2015 4 min read

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August 2015

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

August 1, 2015 8 min read

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A terrible beauty

Images of art and science can be visually stunning at first glance, and then emotionally stunning when the viewer becomes aware of what is depicted. Think micro...

July 1, 2015 4 min read

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July 2015

Musings and news on the extraordinary stories sand has to tell of our planet and daily lives

July 1, 2015 3 min read

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Excrementary, my dear Watson

Where does sand come from? A simple question, not always easily answered, and certainly not in some isolated tropical island environments. The Maldives Archipel...

May 1, 2015 4 min read