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Sailing the Dunes
This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...
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These sand dunes in Iran look like they're straight out of a cartoon — but they're real and insanely dangerous
In the heart of Dasht-e Kavir, a large desert in Iran, there is an enormous area of sand dunes known as Rig-e ... A brave, Danish traveler and photographer, Thomas Flensted, paired up with RO ...
Snow turns sand dunes in Colorado national park into ‘ethereal world.’ See transformation
A unique combination of sand and snow transformed a Colorado national park into an otherworldly winter wonderland, a stunning ...
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Eye of the Desert
Michael Schober (Austria) reveals a precious waterhole inset like a green gem within the sand dunes of the Namib Desert ... When he was 20 years old Michael completed an apprenticeship as a ...
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Small scale ecosystems – sand dunes
Behind many of these beaches are sand dune systems which provide homes for diverse forms of wildlife including plants and insects, some so highly specialised that without these dune habitats ...