A conveyor belt more than 40 miles long runs from tiny Kermit, Texas, across state borders into Lea County, New Mexico.

I got my first lesson in the physics of sand ... read the dune like an open book: The wind was rushing over the top of its crest and then doubling back. To try and land near our cars, parked ...

quite a good bit of Arabian dune racing is done informally. It's a beautiful thing, being able to drive off the road and go climb gigantic mounds of sand, but only if you have the right car for ...

"Usually the reports that come from the sand or dunes are easier. But the harder reports come from the cars that are under water or the places that are muddy," he said. The rescue service ...