travel - Through the sandglass

WHAT??????

This happens very, very rarely, but right now I am completely, totally, and utterly lost for words. [Screen grabs from USA Today and the U.S. Drought Monitor. V...

May 1, 2016 1 min read

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It's not just Namibian fairies

Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories abound, and t...

April 1, 2016 6 min read

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Theeb

“Epic” “intimate” “brutal” “riveting” “spellbinding” “spectacular.” The adjectives come tumbling out of the reviews - but please see this movie for yourself. De...

April 1, 2016 4 min read

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April 2016

April 2016 Described as one of the last great enigmas or mysteries, the so-called fairy circles of the arid lands of Namibia remain to be explained. Theories ab...

April 1, 2016 5 min read

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Sand wars continue, unabated

It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images, above, showing ch...

March 1, 2016 4 min read

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Sunbathing in the microscopic desert jungle

The desert has its own palette, distinctive and at the same time subtle yet dramatic. There are many factors at work creating the patterns and hues of arid land...

March 1, 2016 6 min read

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March 2016

March 2016 It just doesn’t stop, and the scale of the damage to communities and the environment is staggering. NASA recently released the pair of images , above...

March 1, 2016 5 min read

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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