Desert Rub’ Al-Khali Is the Largest “Sand Sea” in the World, but It Was a 138-Foot-Deep Thriving Lake 8,000 Years Ago. Earth has gone through a multitude of changes.

Famous for its otherworldly desert scenery, Sossusvlei is home to some of the highest sand dunes in the world, with peaks ...

Why sea and desert sand don’t make the cut. Sea and desert sands fall short of the qualities needed for reliable construction. Sea sand, for instance, is typically smooth and fine, with rounded ...

New hotels and destination-worthy restaurants now complement the ever-appealing outdoors surrounding the capital of Baja ...

Programme 2: Sea of Sand: Namib desert: Sue Armstrong travels to the Namib desert to discover how the plants and animals that live there manage to survive searing heat and dessicating wind, ...

From a sand dune in Zhongwei, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, neat rows of photovoltaic panels stretch across the Tengger Desert, transforming the golden sands into a vast indigo sea ...

Namib Sand Sea is a desert on the coast of Namibia (Image: Getty) Archaeologists are set to scour a little-known country in search of a “human life” breakthrough.

Crossing a 1,200km sea of sand by car is no easy feat. It can seem even more daunting and seemingly almost impossible when considering doing it on foot. That, however, is what Max Calderan, a 52 ...