THE Israeli city of Ashdod has all the features found in a modern metropolis. Shopping malls, theatres, nightclubs, bars, plenty of good schools. But there is something else, too. Every weekend, at ...

Scientists have solved the mysterious absence of star-shaped dunes from Earth's geological history for the first time, dating one back thousands of years. The study by Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck ...

A satellite image captured from space reveals an extraordinary meeting of two starkly contrasting landscapes in the Sahara ...

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This striking astronaut photo shows off an "eye-catching" impact crater in the Sahara Desert. The oculus-like structure is surrounded by migrating sand dunes that are capable of traveling more than ...

Rich Whittecar isn’t searching for Blackbeard’s lost treasure in the sand dunes at First Landing State Park. Some people seem to think that when they see him wearing a hard hat and carrying a shovel ...

The National Trust has warned that the sand dune system at Crantock in Cornwall has undergone a "dramatic" and "noticeable" changes in recent years. Although changes to sand dunes are part of a ...