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Desert mayhem – Mad Max “Fury Road”

Our planet’s deserts are sweeping landscapes of variety and diversity, human and otherwise. But if you are looking for imagery of the desert as desolate and thr...

June 1, 2015 4 min read

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Our arid planet

Yet again, thank you NASA. As announced last month, their latest extraordinary earth-monitoring system is in orbit, commissioned and providing data: SMAP, the S...

June 1, 2015 4 min read

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June 2015

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

June 1, 2015 4 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

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May 2015

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

May 1, 2015 4 min read

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New book review by Andrew Goudie

Well, sometimes you just have to throw modesty to the dusty winds and shamelessly take on a little self-promotion. The desert book was just reviewed for The Geo...

April 1, 2015 4 min read

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April 2015

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

April 1, 2015 3 min read

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Ecosystem engineers and keystone species

In large areas of Australia there are probably several hundred tons of termites in every square kilometre. From The Desert, Lands of Lost Borders, Chapter 6: Th...

March 1, 2015 5 min read

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Earth Science Week 2014

Earth Science Week 2014 “Since October 1998, the American Geosciences Institute has organized this national and international event to help the public gain a be...

October 1, 2014 3 min read

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August 2014

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

August 1, 2014 6 min read

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July 2014

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

July 1, 2014 6 min read

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Fact-checking – and a new xerocole

Being still in the throes of editing and correcting the proofs for the new book (with the exception of compiling the index, the least enjoyable part of the whol...

June 1, 2014 5 min read