environment - Through the sandglass

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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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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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Georgia Tech Crab Lab: guest post on the art of sidewinding

Over the life of this blog, I have written a number of times on the remarkable and innovative work carried out at Georgia Tech’s Crab Lab, investigations into h...

March 1, 2015 4 min read

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March 2015

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

March 1, 2015 4 min read

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Hypnopompic dunes

Between sleeping and awakening. We tend to think of the world’s dune fields as fearsomely awake, threatening and encroaching, creating vast sand and dust storms...

November 1, 2014 8 min read

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November 2014

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

November 1, 2014 8 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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Mars comes to Stevenage

Stevenage: for readers outside of the UK it may not ring much of a bell, and indeed, with no disrespect to Stevenagians, for most UK readers it is not one of ou...

July 1, 2014 4 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

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The United Nations watches ‘Sand Wars’

Serendipity is a wonderful thing, and I was surprised and delighted to find, completely by accident while looking for something else, this document, published b...

June 1, 2014 2 min read