geomorphology - Through the sandglass

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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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“at the avant-garde of solar”

On my 2013 Moroccan trip, we drove through the town of Ouazazate, “the door of the desert” and an old trading outpost that grew under French colonial rule as a...

October 1, 2015 4 min read

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October 2015

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

October 1, 2015 4 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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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