Winds blowing over a dune can move grains of sand in three main ways. What path these grains take depends on their size, although the exact size in each category can change from site to site. Think of ...

China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

AS FOUR-wheel drives replace camels in deserts around the world, they are leaving the deserts’ fragile surfaces scarred, eroded and blowing in the wind. Fifty years of satellite imaging reveals that ...