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The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders

The book is now available in the UK and the US! I have to say that the publishers, Reaktion Books (and the University of Chicago Press in the US), have done a b...

February 1, 2015 4 min read

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February 2015

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

February 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

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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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On the Edge of the Sahara: a guest post by Ann Lingard

At the edge of the Sahara, I stood for a while and watched a dune move. It pushed out its toes, testing the flat ground in front of it; a small trickle of sand...

March 1, 2015 5 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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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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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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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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Our arid planet

Yet again, thank you NASA. As announced last month, their latest extraordinary earth-monitoring system is in orbit, commissioned and providing data: SMAP, the S...

June 1, 2015 4 min read