Sand is never easy walking ... overland trip: three days across dry desert valleys and through jagged mountain passes. Unlike the Badain Jaran and Tengger Deserts to our south, the northern ...

The dry, inhospitable Arabian desert had been ... Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils ...

The past survives here and speaks from the sand, rock, heat, and dry winds. It whispers to us ... David Mattingly heads a team of scholars on the Desert Migrations Project, whose work takes ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...