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Totally off-piste, but I have to say this

I spent twenty years of my life living and working in the US. My wife is American. My kids were born in Detroit and Dallas (and my daughter currently works in n...

March 1, 2016 11 min read

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2016: the year of the Bagnold dunes

Last month, NASA issued a press release to announce that the Curiosity Rover had reached the “Bagnold dunes” and was preparing to investigate. The image above i...

January 1, 2016 10 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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A Reverence for Rivers (1)

From the New York Times: Los Angeles Brown Warns of Drought Disaster; Says ‘Hard Choices’ Face California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. warned here today that drough...

December 1, 2015 8 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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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