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Guest post: Baltic gold: the amber rush

Danuta Ziętala writes: When you visit the Polish coast you have to take a souvenir: a necklace made of amber, a bracelet made of amber, or other jewellery. Pric...

January 1, 2015 3 min read

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Honeycomb shelters

What, you might reasonably ask, is this image? This is, after all, a blog about topics arenaceous, and folded paper ornaments would, while somewhat seasonal, ha...

January 1, 2015 4 min read

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January 2015

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

January 1, 2015 2 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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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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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

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September 2014

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

September 1, 2014 4 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