The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

Wildlife volunteers have come up with a novel way of battling coastal erosion - using old Christmas trees. Thousands of the ...

What can sand dunes on Earth and Mars teach us about the latter’s wind behavior and atmosphere? This is what a recently awarded NASA grant hopes to address as a PhD student at Texas A&M University ...

A new study led by the University of Southampton and research institutes in France has uncovered the mystery of how mini sand dunes form on beaches and in deserts. While the formation of large desert ...

Depressions such as impact craters can act as traps for sediments that have been blown in from elsewhere, accumulating in various patterns whipped up by strong winds. The dune field in this unnamed 48 ...

To see Frank Dudley’s “Across Wind Blown Sands (Indiana Dunes)” is to be transported to the bright shores of Lake Michigan. The lake’s blue and green expanse is glimpsed in the hollow space between ...