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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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Unearthly dunes

Once in a while I enjoy losing myself in the wonders of Martian landscapes. Words just don’t seem necessary for this selection from the latest HiRISE images. [A...

September 1, 2015 1 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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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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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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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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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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Border nourishment sand wars

We are all familiar with the endless (and expensive) foolishness of ‘beach nourishment’, of the idiocy of Dubai’s artificial sand islands and the general ravage...

September 1, 2014 4 min read